
The Almuñécar Policía Local knocked up 69 fines during the first half of March, most of which had something to do with the pandemic restrictions.
If the authorities thought that by closing down pubs and discotheques, as well as clamping down on botellones, that would be the end of it, they were mistaken.
Five bars and chiringuitos were fined in Motril last weekend, bringing the total up to nineteen establishments to face financial retribution.
Motril Policía Local will be keeping a special eye on cortijos in an area where there have been illegal parties within the municipalities.
Street bottle parties (botellones) are illegal in many municipalities but now the Junta de Andalucía has banned them across the whole of the region.
This time it is Motril that has had enough of night bars failing to control their customers, where many times no masks are worn or social distancing kept.
The Regional Minister for Health, Jesús Aguirre, has ruled out, he says, the idea of putting the metropolitan area of Granada into quarantine.
The nightlife around the Bajos (under the Paseo del Altillo), whilst being very popular, probably doesn’t translate into elevated earnings for the bars along there…