• Events Mossos and Guardia Urbana will control access to the 'macro-bottle' area of ​​Barcelona

Social networks and mobile phone applications were fuming this Saturday night.

Before the strong police control of Mossos d'Esquadra and Guardia Urbana in Montjuïc, with records and identifications, to avoid serious incidents such as the 'macro-bottle' of the early hours of Saturday, thousands of people decided to take the party elsewhere.

Specifically to the beaches.

There they concentrated for a good part of the night without social distance or a mask while they consumed alcohol and the Plaza de Espanya was still shielded by the police. However, the scene was changed but not the problems, as there were robberies by some groups, mainly money and mobile phones, as well as health care due to glass cuts. There were also several fights between partygoers.

As the morning passed, police devices have appeared in this area, which began to heat up the atmosphere with the people who remained on the beaches, mainly those of Bogatell. Most had left but there were groups that began with incidents such as burning of some motorcycles, damage to urban furniture and breakage of restaurant windows on the beach and the occasional trade. The police acted to arrest the violent and it was when clashes of the previous morning were reproduced in the other 'macro-bottle' with objects thrown at the agents.

The general director of Mossos d'Esquadra, Pere Ferrer, explained that some 30 people have been arrested during these incidents for their alleged participation in robberies and vandalism. In Catalunya Ràdio assured that plainclothes agents supported by drones have identified most of the suspects who looted a restaurant in Bogatell and detained them. That is why he considers that these are criminals who take advantage of the massive summons to rob and attack other people and rob businesses. The director of the Mossos said that, unlike the early hours of Saturday, last night on the beach a "huge part of the people was in an orderly manner on the beach in small circles" although a group arrived around four in the morning "small" of between 20 or 30 people who have started to commit crimes.

There are about 40 attended by medical services, mostly for alcohol poisoning.

Ferrer also indicated that these 'bottles' are a problem of non-compliance with the ordinances and that acting or not depends on the circumstances.

For the director of the Mossos, the problem comes when the parties "are degenerating and there are behaviors that are criminal", such as destruction or looting.

The beach was not the only place to do a 'bottle' last night in the city since the police pressure in Montjuïc made many people go to other places such as the Joan Miró park, which was evicted by the agents, or the Lluís promenade Companys, despite the fact that there were no incidents.

The changes of convocation were a constant before the filters of Mossos and Guardia Urbana.

And it is that they did not want to repeat another 'macro-bottle' like the one in the Plaza Espanya area from Friday morning to Saturday with 40,000 people, which led to acts of vandalism and attacks, with a balance of 22 detainees, some 43 injured, 13 of them due to cuts with glass or a knife, and numerous material damage to public furniture, public and private buildings and vehicles, as well as looting of shops.

The cleaning workers of the Barcelona City Council clean the large amounts of containers and waste on the beaches at this time, to adapt them to the bathroom while the city prepares for its last major holiday marked by these violent 'macro-bottles'.

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