Spanish police have joined the war on tourists by confiscating the loungers and umbrellas of selfish beach hoggers who set up shop then leave - sometimes before dawn.
Police were pictured confiscating sunbeds on a Spanish beach. Loungers are taken to a police station where tourists must pay to get them back
Protesters have also occupied beaches on the island of Majorca in an attempt to reclaim them for local people. Photos shared on social media show police in Malaga enforcing the rules with uniformed officers removing chairs from the beach.The angry user captioned the post on TikTok 'you can't occupy a place on the beach while you go to have lunch but yes they can occupy your house' - in a reference to Spain's unpopular squatting laws.
The local laws also state umbrellas, chairs or deckchairs left unattended for more than three hours can be removed. This summer thousands of protesters have descended on the streets of Spain to speak out against mass tourism in the country. A banner reading 'No tourist flats' hangs from a balcony to protest against holiday rental apartments for tourists in Barcelona's neighborhood of BarcelonetaA group of tourists on a bike tour pass an anti-tourism graffiti reading Your Trip Our Misery
Rents rose by 18 per cent in June from a year earlier in tourist cities such as Barcelona and Madrid, according to the property website Idealista. One protester said: '40 years ago, when I was young, I used to come here to swim, then people started coming to drink and it has deteriorated.'
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