Yesterday afternoon the Police Headquarters of Catanzaro suspended the license of a local of the Soverato promenade for 10 days. The measure was triggered after the last checks of 3 August, when two minors of 18 years were hospitalized in the Catanzaro and Soverato hospitals for acute intoxication from alcohol, after the administration of alcoholic beverages inside the room.
The public exercise, in three different circumstances, has made itself responsible for facilitating, favored, facilitated the administration of alcoholic beverages outside the times permitted to the current regulations, and the sale and administration of alcoholic beverages to the minors under the age of 18, but greater than 16 years.
The owner was also denounced for having administered alcohol to people already in a state of manifest drunkenness (art. 691 cp) and administratively sanctioned for having administered alcoholic beverages under the age of 18 but greater than 16 years and for having administered alcoholic beverages beyond the timetable allowed by the law.
The investigations, in such a short period of time, have outlined a current and concrete situation of danger for public order and safety. The purpose of the provision of the Quaestor of Catanzaro is not to sanction the subjective conduct of the manager of the public exercise but that of preventing, through the temporary closure of the room, the continuation of a situation of social danger, which is why we only concern the objective need to protect the order and safety with art. 100 of Tulps
It is a provision to guarantee the order and safety of citizens and the numerous families of tourists present in this period in the renowned seaside resort, which also has the function of producing a dissuasive effect on subjects who have reiterated conduct harmful to the health of particularly vulnerable citizens such as the minors of 18 years. The Quaestor, with art.100 Tulps, can suspend the license of a public exercise, not only in the event that they have verified Disorders, but also if, as in this case, the venue has lent itself to becoming a place where the regulatory precepts that make absolute prohibition of administration and sale of alcoholic beverages with minors, have found easy elusion and conscious circumvention.
“We have put in place tools important pacts and additional resources with summer reinforcements for a safe summer and to encourage healthy fun, without excesses – the prefect Castrese De Rosa said – respecting the rules and prohibitions including that of administering alcohol to minors. Those who respect them have everything to earn with a sort of” blue sticker “, those who transgress them to be subject to the sanctions and will be. inflexible. for this I thank the commissioner Linares and all the police forces for the surgery and control predisposed both along the arteries and towards public exercises.
Check also in Sellia Marina
Even the carabinieri of the Compagnia di Sellia Marina have intensified the controls in the areas most affected by the phenomenon of nightlife with prevention and contrasting services for the administration of alcoholic beverages to minors and in the hourly bands not allowed.
The military of the weapon, after having careful monitoring on the premises most frequented by young people, proceeded to checks aimed at verifying the compliance with the regulations on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
During the checks carried out, it emerged that the automatic distributors installed outside a bar paid alcohol even after midnight, therefore the carabinieri subjected the plants to seizure and contested an administrative sanction of 5,000 euros to the owner.
At the same time, the controls to road traffic aimed at contrasting the driving under a state of alcoholic intoxication were intensified. In this context, two young motorists were sanctioned, which was found an alcohol content higher than double and quadruple of the allowed threshold respectively.