The neighborhood association Demanda Casco Antiguo has denounced this Monday what it considers “indiscriminate and prohibited consumption of alcohol on public roads outside the pubs in the area” and has done so with a new video, recorded at dawn on … Sunday, May 25, from 2:00 a.m. to 4:15 a.m., which shows the crowds of people outside the hospitality establishments in the Market Square and the consumption of alcohol on public roads.
The group also remembers that these behaviors are prohibited by the municipal ordinances on Noise (article 20.2) and the Promotion of Citizen Coexistence (article 17) and that “they are repeated every weekend without the neighbors being aware that “The Local Police have imposed sanctions for these events.”
The neighborhood association has highlighted that this happens next to the doors of the establishments, half-open at dawn, where customers consume on public roads, outside the regulated space of terraces and at a time when they are already collected.
In the images they provide you can see how customers drink their drinks next to the pub bouncers, without them doing anything to prevent it: “The impunity is total and what we don’t know is where the police officers are to prevent these flagrant breaches.” of the regulations and that, as always, torment the residents, totally helpless without guaranteeing a fundamental right such as rest and tolerable noise thresholds as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and reflected in the own municipal noise ordinance.
In this sense, Demanda Casco Antiguo has pointed out that it joins the request of FER-Hostelería, whose spokesperson has repeatedly stated that what they want is a greater police presence so that those who do not comply are punished and remembers that all these events, and many others, have been reported to the Logroño City Council by residents without having any evidence that files have been opened or sanctions imposed.
These neighbors celebrate “the greatest police presence in the neighborhood since they began to denounce the incivility and lack of control fueled by some hospitality establishments, although they remember that if these behaviors are not sanctioned, it is of little or no use.”
«What keeps residents awake at night is not the pissing, which they do not like, but the impunity with which these practices are tolerated, which is why they ask the Police Councilor, Francisco Iglesias, and the chief commissioner, Héctor Ruiz, to do so. public the number of sanctions to citizens for drinking on public roads in the old town and, especially, to the hospitality establishments that dispense the drinks,” they have claimed.
The association points out the existence of other behaviors “disrespectful of the neighborhood and equally illegal, such as dumping glass at four in the morning – in some cases even repeat offenders – which violates not only the Environmental ordinance (no recycling), but also that of Noise for exceeding the maximum sound levels during rest hours and the Civic for seriously disturbing normal citizen coexistence through acts that affect the tranquility and rest of the neighbors.
In this sense, Demanda Casco Antiguo asks the City Council “not to air these files with a small environmental sanction, but to apply the ordinances as a whole in the face of a practice that also demonstrates an absolute lack of respect and coexistence with the residents of the Plaza From the market”.
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