There are no bombs on the beach of Badalona. After an operation that has been extended between 12.00 and 16.00, four members of the Navy deactivated team displaced from Cádiz to the town of the coast of Barcelona have inspected five elements suspected of being old projectiles, supposedly dated from the War Civil, and have concluded that they were nothing more than remains of concrete columns. Army divers have practiced a controlled explosion with a detonating cord, with which they have surrounded one of the pieces on which they harbored most doubts about whether it was an old howitzer. A low intensity burst has been heard on the Cristall beach at 3.40 pm. Then it has been confirmed that it was not an explosive device.

"A false alarm this time", the lieutenant Carlos García Barrio confirmed after completing the operation at 4:00 p.m., when the piece of the Cristall beach that had become unauthorized has been reopened. The Navy officer recalled that "there were some old docks of chemical factories" near the sea. Yesterday, access to a small section of the coast of Badalona was closed, after a swimmer discovered a foreign object at the bottom of the sea. The security perimeter has been extended this noon, to clear about 150 linear meters of coastline. A beach bar has also been evicted.

Lieutenant García Barrio has indicated that the debris that was suspected of being bombs "probably" may have surfaced "due to the storms of the beaches" near Barcelona. The concrete pillars examined today were positive in metal control yesterday, because it is thought that it is reinforced concrete of missing industrial structures in Badalona, ​​a city whose coastline remained surrounded by chemical factories for decades.

Last weekend, a first corporal of the Special Groups of Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard ran into an unexploded Civil War explosive on the Barceloneta beach in Barcelona. Dated from 1936, it contained 70 kilos of trilite and the Navy made it explode one mile offshore on Monday. Subsequently, the Civil Guard received notice of another alleged projectile on the beach of Sitges, but preliminary checks ruled it out.

"After the intervention of a few days ago in Barcelona, ​​it may be that people see ghosts or, conversely, sharpen the eye more, and what previously seemed normal associates it with that news and gives notice. It is what should be done : do not touch anything and warn ", defended García Barrio. The Navy unit established in Cádiz has carried out 14 operations this year for the alleged discovery of artifacts at sea. Last year he performed 18 times. "There are more positive alarms than false alarms," ​​explained the lieutenant.

In the case of Badalona, ​​the photographs taken by the Civil Guard GEAS and sent to the specialized unit of the Navy were not enough to clarify what was hidden under the sea. The deterioration of the pieces due to the effect of water and the lack of certainty about the nature of the remains have forced the operation to be maintained to make sure they were bombs. In the end, it has been proven that they were not.

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