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Spain marks end of Covid curfew with boozy street and beach parties
The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxMass parties have been taking place around Spain in an eruption of euphoria as a six-month night curfew has come to an end.Hundreds of people headed to the beach in Barcelona and squares from Seville to Bilbao in celebrations fuelled with alcohol as fines of more than £500 for breaking the lockdown were lifted.Rowdy behaviour and large gatherings of people without face masks did see police step in to keep social distancing including at Madrid’s Puerta del Sol.Madrid’s mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida has called the images “shameful”.In Barcelona deputy mayor Albert Batlle said that the police had had to intervene in over 30 gatherings
