"Unable to put a bit of reasoning, you can go to make coffee from Vinaròs to Xàtiva, but the granddaughter cannot visit her grandparents in Vinaròs".

With this phrase we can summarize what many of the residents of border populations between the

Valencian Community

and

Catalonia

feel

with relatives on either side of the Sénia.

This phrase expressed on social networks days ago by a neighbor of Alcanar, whose wife is from Vinaròs, acquires greater prominence from now on when the

perimeter closure of the

Valencian

Community

will affect

all Christmas days

.

In this way, on Christmas or Three Kings Day this girl will not be able to see her grandparents even though they are only separated by a few kilometers, which can be covered in a few minutes.

This same neighbor wrote that he had gone to his garden in the company of his family, partially skipping the perimeter confinement because "health comes first, of course, but emotionally as well."

"

From Ulldecona, Alcanar

and other nearby Catalan municipalities

there are those who leave to go to Vinaròs, Peñíscola, Benicarló ... without encountering controls

that can prevent it," said a reader of EL MUNDO.

"The security forces are nowhere to be seen," he said.

However, from the

Local Police of Vinaròs they affirmed that these controls are being carried out,

focused

on the roads that connect Vinaròs and Alcanar

in which they have powers, within the possibilities allowed by the staff of agents and the need to also attend to the others services also linked to the pandemic situation (terrace controls, hospitality, curfew hours).

The

Civil Guard

is also doing controls

on national highways 238 and 340.

Controls are increased on weekends, at least by the Local Police.

Thus, last weekend a total of 23 reports of complaint were imposed on the Camí Vell d'Alcanar.

There were checks both on Saturday and Sunday both in the morning and in the afternoon.

Neighbors to the south of Tarragona and north of Castellón who interact between both communities have frequently had to provide themselves with the corresponding

documentation to justify these trips,

when they are for work reasons or for another justified reason.

Thus, for example, a neighbor of Alcanar has documentation prepared by a doctor, which allows her to go regularly to visit a direct relative who, due to his advanced age, needs frequent care.

They look for how to bypass the perimeter closure

From Barcelona, ​​a man from Vinaròs, in addition to regretting that "for the first time in my life I will not be able to be in Vinaròs on Three Kings Day", commented with humor that

"the entire Valencian colony in Catalonia is already looking for information on how to bypass the perimeter fence

of la terreta ”while another said that the Sénia river becomes the Grande river (because of the fact that it cannot be crossed by the perimeter fence).

The coastal populations of the north of Castellón have usually been nurtured by residents of the south of Tarragona, both for commercial, work, recreational and social reasons, and the reverse is also the case.

The pandemic, with the consequent closure of borders, has caused these links to have been seriously resented.

It is worth remembering the large influx of Catalan visitors experienced by the hotel and catering establishments in Vinaròs, when those in Catalonia closed and while from there they were still allowed to travel to other territories.

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