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The photo is of La Marina Beach on Sunday. Every person said they were sticking to the rules.

DAY 340 Spanish news - La Marina Beach - Fines for parties - Corona virus cases continue to fall - Alicante silence of the trams

LA MARINA BEACH Hundreds of people from Elche make a pilgrimage to La Marina beach

Due to the perimeter closure that Elche experiences on weekends, the Marina beach is full of visitors. The perimeter closure of the municipality of Elche, together with the good weather, is causing hundreds of people from Elche to go to the beaches of Elche districts to spend Sunday in the sun. Such is the movement, that in the vicinity of La Marina beach there is no room for more cars. The shore of El Pinet beach is currently plagued by people walking, fishermen, children playing and the mandatory use of a mask.

FINES FOR PARTYS This has been the last police operation: 142 complaints for breaching the state of alarm, 20 parties and 3 bottles in Alicante. The agents sanctioned three establishments for failing to comply with closing hours and sanitary measures. The Security Council of the City Council informs that the Local Police of Alicante has closed the operation on Saturday with a total of 142 complaints for breaching the state of alarm, dissolved 20 parties in homes and three bottle parties in the castle of San Fernando, Cala Cantalar and Lucentum, and three establishments have been sanctioned in the surveillance and control device to guarantee compliance with health and security measures against Covid. The Local Police last night had to dissolve 20 parties in homes with a high risk of contagion of covid, with people who are not living together without masks, which were generating annoyances and noise to the neighbours. The parties were organised on various streets. In addition, in the afternoon, the Police also dissolved a party by raising six minutes of non-cohabitants gathered in a house. The Local Police in the itinerant devices organized over the weekend have managed to intercept, punish and evict the groups of young people that get together, in the afternoon the agents intervened to dissolve three bottles that were being held in the castle of San Fernando, Cala Cantalar and Lucentum, who have been denounced for alcohol consumption on public roads. In the inspections and continuous surveillance of these devices, the Local Police in the morning and afternoon dissolved several groups of more than two people and 24 sanctions were filed against groups, as well as 6 complaints for not wearing the mandatory mask, and 3 for the Law of Citizen security. The night agents, and out of control, intercepted and denounced 13 people for breach of the curfew after 10 pm, also raising 5 complaints for holding a meeting between non-cohabitants on public roads. As a noteworthy fact, the Police in the operation of the closure of the premises had to intervene sanctioning three establishments, which have been denounced for excessive hours, non-compliance with sanitary measures and a 24-hour establishment has also been sanctioned for selling alcohol outside hours allowed, after 10 pm.

CORONAVIRUS CASES CONTINUE TO FALL The number of admitted to the ICU of Alicante decreases for the tenth consecutive day. The new infections register their lowest number since January 10 and the deaths from coronavirus are not reported in the last day. The pressure in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) falls in the province of Alicante for the tenth consecutive day. The number of people entered in these spaces is now 187, according to the latest data update from the Ministry of Health. This data, despite its magnitude, represents a decrease of 23% compared to that registered ten days ago. The new infections reach their lowest figure since last January 10, and, the heaviest of the new, the number of deaths, has not been reported in the last day, according to the same sources. Ten days ago there were 244 people admitted to the ICUs of the different hospitals in the province of Alicante. This figure was given on February 4, just three days after registering the largest number of people in intensive care since data on the pandemic were available. Today that number of admitted drops to 187, a level of occupation in these spaces that has not occurred since January 17.

TORREMENDO LAKE La Pedrera is the interior wetland with the highest bird census in the Community. The last observation of Faunatura puts the number of specimens in the artificial reservoir at more than 5,600, which choose the place to spend the winter. A total of 5,622 birds have been registered by the Faunatura Association in the Pedrera Reservoir this winter. Something that turns this artificial reservoir into the interior wetland - which is not a Natural Park - with the largest number of wintering birds in the Valencian Community. This huge freshwater wetland is currently the habitat of more than 5,600 water birds of at least 18 species that choose this place to spend the winter each year. Something that has been certified by the XXII census of aquatic birds of inland wetlands of the Valencian Country 2021 carried out by the Faunatura Association and coordinated by the Valencian Society of Ornithology (SVO). One of the most prominent groups of birds in the total volume of birds identified were the seagulls. The proximity to the coast and natural areas such as the Lagunas de la Mata and Torrevieja Natural Park mean that significant concentrations of more than 4,000 shady, yellow-legged or laughing gulls are counted that use the reservoir as a transit area during their feeding racking. soaring through the sky from the Alicante coast to the neighboring Region of Murcia, or used as a roost area for their plumage. In addition, in the same census several birds of prey were sighted: kestrels and golden eagles, Bonelli, lagoon and mousetrap, coming from Sierra Escalona and the Dehesa de Campoamor.

The reservoir is located between the municipalities of Orihuela, San Miguel de Salinas and Bigastro. Over an area of 1,272 hectares, it has the capacity to house 246 hectometres - in recent months it has an average volume of about 75 hectometres-. It is by far the largest reservoir of fresh water in the province. The infrastructure was between 1975 and 1978 curiously on the most important rainfed agricultural area of Bajo Segura and its objective is to dam the water from the Tajo-Segura transfer. Since 2014 it has been incorporating water from the Torrevieja desalination plant: the proportion of desalinated resources from the Mediterranean with respect to the total is increasing. Flows from the Segura river arrive very punctually through the transfer from the Ojós weir (Murcia) when avenues occur and the water is diverted to avoid flooding in the Vega Baja and reuse it. The Pedrera reservoir has been protected as a Wet Zone in the Valencian Community since last November and forms part of the Protected Landscape of Sierra Escalona and its surroundings, and the next Natural Park of the Valencian Community «according to the promise of the Consell de increase their protection ”, according to Faunatura.

GOVERNMENT NOT CALLING RETIRED NURSES BACK FOR DUTY Discomfort among doctors and nurses due to the lack of health care with retired volunteers throughout the pandemic

Only nine physicians of the 160 people who volunteered in March have been mobilized - A month ago the Ministry opened a bag for vaccination, and no one has yet been called.

Empty job boards and lack of hands in hospitals and health centres, especially nurses and doctors, to care for coronavirus patients. It is the trend that is being experienced in the health centres of the province since the coronavirus pandemic broke out. However, despite this lack of professionals, Health has hardly pulled in any retired doctors and nurses to reinforce the exhausted hospital and health centre staff. And that offers have not lacked. In both the first and third waves of the pandemic, two job offers have been opened for retired professionals who wanted to help voluntarily. As recognized by the Ministry of Health itself, 160 people signed up for the first bag that was created, including nurses and doctors from the entire Valencian Community. Of them, at least 68 doctors were from the province. Only nine doctors were called in the three provinces. The department of Ana Barceló justify this low number of people mobilized in "the need to strengthen the structure of Public Health", which is why only mobilized "retirees who demonstrated experience and knowledge in the areas of Epidemiology and Public Health" . In this way, mobilizing these professionals for care tasks was avoided. The bulk of these 160 professionals were not mobilized either in the first wave or in the following months. At the end of January, when the third wave of the pandemic was already raging, hospitals were on the verge of collapse and health centers were completely overwhelmed, another bag of retirees was activated again, this time only for vaccination tasks. 227 professionals including doctors and nurses have enrolled in it. At the moment no one has been

called, they answer from Health, although the vaccination campaign began at the end of December and despite the fact that the lack of doctors and nurses has been worse now than in March, a real problem for the departments' directors sanitary.

APARTMENT FOR SALE SQUATTERS INCLUDED Real estate companies begin to see a business buying apartments with squatters. Housing sales agencies in the province begin to acquire properties with defaulters at a low price after the proliferation of companies specialized in throwing them out - The companies defend that their action is legal and lawful «Do you have your home for sale and they have squatted it? It is not a problem, we buy houses with squatters, we are interested in buying them even with the "bug" inside. Come in and we'll talk. This is what can be read on one of the posters of a real estate agency in Elche. The business of evicting squatters and delinquent tenants has been growing for more than five years, more and more companies of this type offer their services in the province, many of them based in other parts of Spain, and agencies have also started to resort to their services. This practice has unleashed great controversy since its inception, since it is located on the margins of the law, but the companies that carry it out defend that its action is completely legal, for which they have the support of legal firms, and it is in the legal framework. The Dama de Elche real estate, located in a central street in the centre of the city of Elche, is one of those that works with this type of company. In his case, he does it with Desokupa, the most important company in the sector, since it was a pioneer in this type of practice. “We have not bought many houses with tenants inside, two or three, but it has not been necessary to vacate them. They have gone beforehand and we have saved money on lawyers. We buy them this way because it is cheaper for us ”, explains the manager of the real estate, Gaspar Agulló. Some of the companies that offer this type of service assure that they are receiving more than 300 requests a day and that the number has skyrocketed in the last twelve months, since, apart from squatters, the number of people living rent that, working in the sectors most affected by the crisis, cannot meet their monthly payments.

PORNO PICTURES BLACKMAIL Arrested in Alicante for posting hundreds of photos of women on a pornography website and trying to help them later by posing as police. Agents of the National Police bring to justice a 33-year-old man who obtained images of his victims and threatened to send them to their friends and co-workers. The National Police have arrested in Alicante a 33-year-old man who was dedicated to publishing photographs and personal data of hundreds of women on an Internet page with pornographic content. According to the General Directorate of the Police, the accused posed as an Interpol agent, pointed out his victims as prostitutes and threatened them with sending the images to their work and social circle if they did not send them more or agreed to physical encounters. One of them had an encounter with him near the Castle of Santa Bárbara in which the fake agent took intimate photographs of him, relying on wanting to help him avoid falling into the hands of foreign mafias. Agents of the technological crime group of the Alicante Judicial Police Brigade learned earlier this year of several complaints in which the victims said that their photographs had been published on an adult website with pornographic content. The modus operandi and the data provided made the agents suspicious, who soon thought that the events could be related and that the author could be the same person. In all the complaints it was found that the victims were users of web pages related to seeking friendship and meeting people, where they published their photographs. Some of those photos, along with their personal data, were found on a pornographic content page where it was pointed out that they were prostitutes.

The detainee was posing as an Interpol police officer. The victims told the agents that they knew the information in these publications as a person had contacted them through social networks posing as an Interpol police agent. This person had made them think that they were in danger that foreign mafias were using his photographs and could cause him greater harm. Taking advantage of this fear, he asked them to make an appointment in person with them to provide them with more information, according to the same sources. Once the agents analyzed all the complaints and statements of the victims, the investigators found out that one of them had come to have an appointment in person with this alleged "agent" in a wooded area of the Castillo de Santa Bárbara, where he took intimate photographs of the lady with the excuse of checking that he had no marks or scars and thus verifying that the photos on the internet were hers. The victim, confident that this person was truly an agent and was going to help him so that his photographs and personal data were deleted from the network, later received a call from him in which he began to threaten to send the images to the contacts of she. About 1,200 photographs of more than 700 women. Researchers who analyzed the content of the web page where the images were published, located almost 1,200 photographs of more than 700 different women, some of an intimate nature. The agents were able to identify some of them and inform them of the events, as well as alerting them to the possibility that the alleged perpetrator would contact them. Once informed, one of the women whose photographs had been published contacted the investigators to notify them that a man had contacted her with the intention of making an appointment in the same wooded area where she had already arranged to meet. another of the victims, so the agents, knowing his intentions, established a surveillance device in order to locate and identify the alleged perpetrator, who was finally detained. After his arrest, the agents conducted a search at his home, where various computer equipment such as hard drives, telephones and computers were seized, as well as videos of other victims and the false Interpol credentials that he used to make his victims believe that he was a agent of that body. The detainee, accused of an alleged crime against privacy and moral integrity, threats and usurpation of public functions, was placed at the disposal of the Court of Instruction of the Guard of the town of Alicante.

ALICANTE SILENCE OF THE TRAMS Releases Two Spotify Playlists To Promote Silent Travel

Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat launches a safety campaign for travel with a hundred songs by Valencian groups. Listen to a lot of music so as not to talk so much. That is the new commitment of Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), which has just launched two music lists by different artists, among which Valencian singers and groups stand out, as part of the 'Viatgem en silenci' campaign, aimed at the TRAM users. Each one of them has a hundred songs and they aim to deepen the importance of keeping silence and not talking during travel considerably reduces the possibility of contagion of covid. The two 'playlists' are already available and with content, but service users can still make their recommendations or suggestions through the different official channels of the public company on social networks.

The 'Viatgem en silenci' campaign has been installed in different information media in stations, and inside the trains and trams in service both in the TRAM and, in València, in Metrovalencia.

The Minister for Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility, Arcadi Spain, explained that "this initiative aims to accompany travellers from Valencia and Alicante on their journeys and to remember that, at this time, we all collaborate in silence to get transport safer public. " In addition, Spain has pointed out that the initiative "also aims to" support "the cultural sector, giving it promotion and visibility in a complicated situation due to the pandemic. On the other hand, to enhance communication with users of Valencian public transport, FGV plans to create a new collaborative Spotify list based on the suggestions that travellers themselves send to the company.

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