Cops on party island set to stop supermarkets from filling shop fronts with alcohol
Latest bid to clean up reputation for booze, sex and wild parties
BOOZE-filled displays are set to be banned from shopfronts in the party town of Magaluf.
The ruling is the latest bid to clean-up the Spanish resort's reputation for sun, sex and wild parties.
The Calvia Council, which has control over the party resort, approved the move to prevent window displays of alcohol this week.
Proposer Carlos Tarancon said: “We understand those businesses full of alcoholic beverages should be regulated and the display of those beverages limited, given that as well as alcohol, they also sell other products.”
Earlier this year a British tourist nearly drank himself to death by downing 75 shots in a Magaluf bar. The 18-year-old collapsed in the street and spent eight hours in hospital hooked up to a drip.
This is not the first attempt to clean-up Magaluf's streets, which became infamous two years ago after a video of a British holidaymaker performing sex acts in return for cocktails emerged.
In May 2015 new by-laws were introduced to ban nighttime street drinking and kerb controversial pub crawls.
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The by-laws gave police the power to fine people consuming alcohol in groups, making noise or being a nuisance - particularly between 10pm and 8am.
The nighttime sale of take away alcohol was also banned and revellers were stopped from taking their drinks with them as they moved between bars on the Punta Ballena strip.
The latest move comes as police in Majorca arrested two Brits after smashing an alleged drug smuggling gang believed to be the main supplier of cocaine to tourists in Magaluf.
Nearly five kilos of cocaine were seized during raids in the party resort and Palma.
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