Saturday, 26th August 2023
Control is redoubled in Calvià: closure and 60.000-euro fine to a Magaluf bakery for selling alcohol outside the permitted hours
Consolidating Calvià as a safe leisure municipality, priority of Juan Antonio Amengual's municipal executive
Calvià Local Police officers have detected a bakery in Magaluf selling alcohol outside the hours allowed by the Tourism of Excesses Decree 1/2020. As a precautionary measure, the closure of the establishment has been decreed and a 60.000-euro fine has been imposed, as the offense is considered very serious. The Decree establishes that the sale of alcohol in shops and supermarkets in the delimited areas —in this case Magaluf, Punta Ballena— is prohibited between 9:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. The establishment was caught selling alcohol at 5 in the morning.
Juan Feliu —general director of Activities and Commerce, Offenses and Sanctions, and Roads and Works— has indicated that “the Local Police are doing a great job, it is necessary to enforce the Tourism of Excesses Decree. Sometimes it may seem that the measures and sanctions are too harsh, but it must be understood that the intention is not to collect money. Here, what it is about is being inflexible with the breach of the rules to ensure what Calvià is and should continue to be, to improve and offer a safe leisure destination. Incivility and excesses have no place in our municipality.
The Town Hall has made it a priority to tackle uncivil tourism and crime. Throughout the current tourist season, efforts have been redoubled with initiatives such as the launching of the plainclothes police officers operation.