The measure will come into force in August and affects 18 businesses that will have to lower the blind from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
The Barcelona City Council announced this Friday the approval of a decree that will oblige the food stores that are in the strip of the Parc i la Llacuna neighborhood of Poblenou, which is known as the Gulf Triangle (the council calls it the Ludic Triangle) to close its doors from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. from Wednesday to Sunday. Is about 18 shops open 24 hours a dayand that from now on they will not be able to continue doing it all week.
The measure, which has been announced by the councilor of Sant Martí, David Escudewill also be in force on holidays and the vigils of holidays that fall on Monday and Tuesday, and seeks to stop the bottle, which has long generated protests from neighbors, who denounce that it is difficult for them to fall asleep before the agglomeration of people in the street that drinks and makes noise.
Alcoholic drinks
According to Escudé, the intention is to prevent people from going to these places to “buy alcoholic beverages, drinks that accompany cocktails, glasses and ice&rdquor ;, as they do now. It will not be the only measure, another is the increase in the penalties applied for drinking in the street.
the mayor, Ada Colauattended this Thursday with the deputy mayor for Security, Albert Batlleto Calle de Pere IV to talk to some of the members of SOS Triángulo Golfo, the epicenter of the great drinking scene in the area, and assured them that the penalties for drinking in the street will rise to 600 euros.
The fine of 600 euros, which was already feasible until now, will be provided for cases in which drinking in the street involves a serious impact on public space. Escudé has justified the increase announced by Colau in that the current reality of the large bottles had not been known until now.
At present, the low band provided for in the regulations is imposed, with penalties of 30 euros that, if paid quickly, drop to 15. A sum lower than the cost of practicing the bottle. The new fines will arrive in a few days, after Batlle gives the order to the Guardia Urbana.
Final approval in August
The mandatory closure of stores from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. has been established by means of a council decree that has been initially approved and that will come into force in August once it has passed the public exhibition process and is definitively approved.
It is a measure taken by the District of Sant Martí in response to the finding that nightlife in the street has skyrocketed for months. According to the neighbors, it is not that the phenomenon did not exist before, but that once the restrictions imposed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic were eliminated, it has intensified. They say that what used to happen during the weekend now happens from Wednesday to Sunday, if not all week.
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The mandatory closure is decreed on Meridiana Avenue (Besòs side) and the streets of Tànger, Llacuna, Pallars, Badajoz, Pujades and Marina. The 18 affected businesses, which have already been alerted to the new rule, have an offer aimed at everyday food products, personalized sales or self-service, and it will also apply to those that open in the future.
End the bottle
Escudé has stressed that police surveillance has increased, especially from the Urban Guard but also from the Mossos, although the neighbors maintain a similar anger to that of months ago, and that it will increase more. The ultimate goal, he has declared, is “to take a firm step to finally put an end to the bottle in the district of Sant Martí & rdquor ;.