The Citizen Security and Intervention Unit of the Local Police (USCI) of Arrecife detected 56 people without masks or gathered in groups on the street over the weekend and intervened in three brawls, in addition to dissolving bottle parties and meetings in parks, in the surveillance device that it carried out together with the Canarian Autonomous Police and the National Police after Lanzarote entered level 4 of health alert.
"The profile of those who fail to comply is that of a person under 30 years of age," confirmed Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, an officer of the USCI, who believes that young people "are not aware of the reality" and that "they do not respect anyone." "It is sad, but it is so, the society that we have now of young people, knows the rights but not the duties," he said.
And it is that, among those reported on the weekend, he has stated that there are even repeat offenders. "On Friday we went to the park on Calle Norte, we reported some kids, and on Saturday the same kids were there," said this USCI agent, who explained that, in addition to trying to avoid non-compliance, his job during the weekend was to "raise awareness that the hospital is completely collapsed and that with that attitude we are not going to get out of this."
Three brawls dissolved during the weekend
Regarding the brawl that occurred on Saturday afternoon-night near the Sports City, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez has detailed that the man who was arrested "ran away" when the agents arrived in the area and that "he was without a mask, without a shirt and with a bloody face." In addition, after being arrested, "he would not" put on the mask "because he was aggressive," according to this USCI agent.
It should be remembered that one person was injured in said brawl and that, after it, a minor girl, the partner of the other arrested, was also arrested for threatening the caregivers of the juvenile center where she resides with a knife.
Likewise, the USCI intervened between Friday and Saturday in two other brawls in the capital, starring "also by young people." "I don't know where we are going to end up in Arrecife, but it's crazy," said Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who specified that the other altercations took place on Calle Norte and "behind Cocelan" and that "no weapons were used" in any of them.