Twelve mayors of the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona ask the Government to have a curfew

Twelve mayors of municipalities in the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona less than 10,000 inhabitants they have requested by letter to the Government to have a curfew “due to the risk of suffering an increase in bottles during Christmas”, as it already happened in summer.

The mayors of Tiana, Alella, Teià, Vilassar de Dalt, Cabrils, Cabrera de Mar, Òrrius, Vilanova del Vallès, Vallromanes, Santa Maria de Martorelles, Martorelles and Sant Fost de Campsentelles (Barcelona), according to the brief consulted by Europa Press.

The mayors assure that they do not have the “sufficient police force” to avoid bottles during dates such as the end of the year, after the closure of nightlife to avoid contagion of covid.

And they remember that in September already they had to limit access to the Parc de la Serralada Litoral and parking in these municipalities “to avoid the concentrations and bottles that were produced”, which also left the park full of garbage.

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If the Government refuses to extend the curfew to these municipalities, alternatively they demand an “extraordinary and specific device of the Mossos d’Esquadra” to guarantee citizen security.

The curfew decreed by the Government affects 125 municipalities in Catalonia from Friday: 117 are localities with more than 10,000 people and with a cumulative incidence of more than 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, and another nine for being island municipalities that surround these populations to prevent the spread of the virus.