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VIDEO. In Madrid, the influx of tourists arouses anger and misunderstanding

3/27/2021, 6:13:23 PM


With its bars open and its curfew at 11 p.m., Madrid has become the destination of choice for tourists, especially French people.

Friday evening, Espoz y mina street located in the heart of Madrid looked like "the world before".

Filmed by an Internet user, dozens of alcoholic people, often without a mask, are grouped together.

Some sing ... La Marseillaise.

For several days, anger has been mounting in the Spanish capital where tourists are allowed to land, provided with a simple negative PCR test.

However, the Spaniards themselves are prohibited from moving from one region to another.

This difference in treatment exasperates the Spaniards, even more with the approach of Holy Week, an extremely popular holiday in the country and when people are used to traveling to meet up with their families.

"We cannot go to see our families for Easter, for example, I am from Almería, so I do not see the fact that foreigners come, they can have the Covid as much as me, so I think that the measures do not are not the same for everyone ”, indignant José Rodriguez, resident of Madrid.

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Some members of the opposition have taken up the subject, denouncing discrimination against their compatriots: "No one can understand that a Spaniard cannot go to see his grandfather in Santander, while a German from Düsseldorf, him, can go to Mallorca, said opposition MP Íñigo Errejón.

It does not make sense to ask us to make efforts and at the same time to transform the country into a bistro of Europe!

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Spanish authorities announced on Saturday that a negative PCR test of less than 72 hours would now be required for anyone wishing to cross the French land border to travel to Spain.

The measure, which will take effect on Tuesday and applies to people over the age of 6, comes as Spain steps up restrictions in hopes of avoiding an increase in cases of Covid-19 contamination during Holy Week .