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Blue Flag Beaches & Marginalised Slums

category international | environment | other press author Saturday June 11, 2005 12:57author by iosaf Report this post to the editors

Carcavelos beach is just outside of Lisbon the capital of Portugal, where the EU deal on good times for poor people was made.

Yesterday during the national holiday, Carcavelos beach filled up with happy Lisbonites relaxing from the worst inflation in the EU, and probably rubbing shoulders with the cheery types who fly in from the north and buy flats in the picturesque city to recover from the strain of being on the pigs back.

This is modern tourism.
I hope you packed your protection, it can get quite hot.
I hope you packed your protection, it can get quite hot.

Of the 3000 blue flag beaches in Europe, not all are sunny. Ireland has a lot, but it pisses rain. Catalonia has the most blue flag beaches of any region in all of Europe, but I'm ungrateful coz I prefer the mountains.

Anyway...

Last year, rioting in the poorest areas of Lisbon saw the police sent in for a couple of days. And this year the "return ruck" occured on the beach of Carcavelos, as maurading vikings & barbarians, sorry, thuggish slum kids numbering over 500 went to the beach and robbed everyone.

The mayor of Cascais, Mr Antonio Capucho (funny surname etymologically means hood) assured journalists and travel agents that the kids came from "marginalised Lisbon suburbs".

They fought with both regular Portuguese and Marine police till sundown.

Blue Flag results 2005
http://www.blueflag.org/%7B587621B6-1148-4B15-A430-DA286B134376%7D

BBC Coverage (english) : -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4083030.stm
Spanish coverage (spanish) :-
http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/medio_millar_jovenes_siembran_panico_346652.htm

Local Indymedia Coverage (portuguese)
http://pt.indymedia.org/ler.php?numero=60483&cidade=1

The town site:-
http://www.jf-carcavelos.pt/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   "we're all going on a summer holiday"     i mac d.    Sat Jun 11, 2005 14:00 
   Clockwork Orange Redux     Observer    Sun Jun 12, 2005 04:46 
   Tourists are NOT Terrorists     toneore    Sun Jun 12, 2005 08:25 
   oh they had sun-tans!     -    Mon Jun 13, 2005 13:55 
   little precious holiday link had to go somewhere-     (holiday links)    Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:27 
   another precious little holiday link.     io    Sat Jul 30, 2005 23:12 
   Compare & contrast this.     holliers    Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:16 
   Blue Flag a scam     Eoin    Thu Aug 18, 2005 19:46 
   the marginalised slum idea     giggle.    Thu Aug 18, 2005 19:58 
 10   what?     tom o'd    Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:05 
 11   especially those of us who can read.     iosaf    Fri Aug 19, 2005 19:21 


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