Twenty people have been arrested in another clash between tourists and police in Lloret de Mar. It follows earlier trouble in the early hours of Monday this week in which police used rubber bullets when hit by a shower of bottles and other objects.
In the clashes in the early hours of today, Thursday, events got out of hand at the doors of the Colossos discotec in the town, after the premises were evacuated after the air conditioning broke down. It seems there was a power cut, and the disco’s own generators were not powerful enough to run the air conditioning.
The club holds 1,800 people and was full because an international DJ was performing.
What are described as ‘hundreds of hooligans’ then went on the rampage, setting fire to several rubbish containers, and facing up to the regional police, Los Mossos d’Esquadra, at the doors of the disco and around 2am this morning.
20 arrests were made for public order offences. One local newspaper has the headline ‘Lloret is like London’.
All those arrested are foreigners aged under 30. They come from France (13), Germany (3), Holland (2), Switzerland (1) and Solvinia (1).
Mayor of Lloret, Romà Codina, has announced that measures are to be taken so that ‘drunken tourism’ will not prejudice family and sports tourism which the town wants to attract.
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