The Policía Local de Ibiza evicted 800 people from the Port, sa Penya and Marina areas in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to municipal sources. “A large group of people remained in the streets after the bars closed at two in the morning, causing noise nuisance to neighbours and, some of them, consuming alcohol, making it necessary for the officers to intervene, with the collaboration of the Policía Nacional,” explained the Town Hall in a communiqué. This intervention took place within the framework of a “special device for the control of botellones and infractions of the Covid regulations”, according to the Consistory. Both plainclothes and uniformed officers took part in the operation, which also charged two establishments in the area for not complying with the compulsory closing hours. To prevent alcohol being sold after the bars had closed, the officers remained in the area.
The port of Ibiza, Saturday night. DI
A total of seven charges were also made, five for alcohol consumption in the street and two for possession of drugs, and three loudspeakers were seized, “formulating the corresponding penalty for violation of municipal ordinances,” the consistory concluded.
For their part, the Policía Local de Sant Josep, in collaboration with the Guardia Civil, had to intervene on three occasions to break up concentrations of young people who were binge drinking at different points in the Platja d’en Bossa area, also on Saturday night. The officers dispersed the first group of youths at around 12:30 am. The second botellón was dispersed at around 2.30 a.m. and the third, in which there were an estimated 150 people consuming alcohol on the public thoroughfare, at around 4 a.m.
The Policía Local de Sant Josep, along with the Guardia Civil, stop three botellones in the early hours of Saturday
As explained by the Consistory in a press release published by this newspaper last Saturday, “complaints for consuming alcohol in the street have increased with the lifting of restrictions on night-time mobility” and represent “a serious disturbance wherever they are recorded, usually in urban areas of the municipality close to the coast, especially on some beaches”.