A funeral in Granada ends with 63 fines for the attendance of more than 100 people, despite the restrictions | Radio Granada

The National Police has intervened in a massive burial celebrated in the cemetery of San José de Granada, a funeral attended by more than a hundred people and in which they were formalized 49 penalties for violating COVID-19 restrictions and another 14 for skipping lockdown.

As sources of this armed body have informed Efe, the event was registered around 5:00 p.m. this Friday in the municipal cemetery of Granada to which the agents traveled after a call that alerted a high concentration of people.

When the police action began, even the cemetery had been displaced more than a hundred people to participate in a funeral Despite the fact that the current restrictions approved to combat the expansion of the coronavirus allow a maximum of 50 attendees outdoors, half in an enclosed space.

According to the newspaper Ideal of Granada, the arrival of the agents dispersed a part of the participants, who fled the area on the run. After this reduction of the group, and according to police data, the agents formalized 49 sanctions for failing to comply with the measures imposed by the Board in the current state of alarm and added another 14 fines to congregants who had also bypassed the perimeter confinement that prevents them from leaving their locations.

After the performance, the burial was held without incident and with part of the attendees gathered in small groups of no more than six people outside the cemetery, scattered and wearing the mandatory masks.

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