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The Municipal Police of Madrid filed this Wednesday, the eve of Easter, 2,131 fines to the citizens of the capital for breaching the restrictions of the state of alarm , which is triple the previous day, when the figure reached 672 sanctions.

In addition, 34 people were charged or detained for a possible crime by skipping the decree imposed by the coronavirus and 918 vehicles were intercepted by local agents.

The number of complaints, detainees and intercepted vehicles has been considerably increased since, this Wednesday, the Municipal Police launched a special roadside control operation to prevent undue displacement during Easter.

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, spent the morning of this Holy Thursday supervising one of those traffic controls carried out by the Municipal Police, specifically, the one at the exit of the A3.

According to municipal sources, in total, from yesterday Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. and until Friday, April 10, a hundred controls will be installed, which will make it the largest operation of this type carried out by the Municipal Police.

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