30 Mar, 2020 @ 10:56
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Madrid family-of-five fined for picknicking on closed Costa Blanca beach during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown

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FOR families from Spain’s bustling capital, a visit to their second home on the coast is not complete without a toe-dip in the Med.

Except Spain has been on coronavirus lockdown 15 days. The the Cala de Ambolo in Javea has been closed for the last seven years.

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The family told patrolling Guardia Civil they ‘had to take the children out the house’, according to XabiaAlDia.com.

All five members of the family are reported to have been issued with a ‘denuncia’ for breaking Spain’s state of alarm rules.

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Joshua Parfitt

Joshua James Parfitt is the Costa Blanca correspondent for the Olive Press. He holds a gold-standard NCTJ in multimedia journalism from the award-winning News Associates in Twickenham. His work has been published in the Sunday Times, Esquire, the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Sun on Sunday, the Mirror, among others. He has appeared on BBC Breakfast to discuss devastating flooding in Spain, as well as making appearances on BBC and LBC radio stations.

Contact me now: joshua@theolivepress.es or call +44 07960046259. Twitter: @jjparfitt

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