Botellón
As Botellón [ boteʎon ] ( span. "Large bottle", plural: Botellones ) Botelleo [ boteʎeo ] Botellona [ boteʎona ] or Borrachera [ boratʃeɾa ] is in Spain one about the early to mid-1990s been perfect custom adolescents and young adults which mainly gather in the evenings on the weekends to consume alcohol and celebrate in public places. The term refers to the type of alcohol consumption, which is preferably made from large self-mixed 1.5 or 2 liter bottles that the participants of botellones buy themselves in shops. The botellón usually marks the start of the weekend evenings.
So-called macrobotellones have been known since around 2003, some of which involve thousands of participants, especially in large Spanish cities. These macrobotellones are usually organized spontaneously via websites, e-mail or SMS and have now developed into a kind of competition between young people in Spanish cities. The aim of the unknown organizers is to spontaneously gather as large a crowd as possible. Around 70,000 people came together in Seville in March 2004 for one of the largest macrobotellones in Spain .
Controversy
Spain
In Spain, the autonomous communities determine whether or not alcoholic beverages are allowed to be consumed on public streets and squares . The botellones are most common in the south, where it is warm enough to meet outside all year round. At the southern tip of Spain, in Andalusia , the botellones were banned in December 2006.
Switzerland
In the summer of 2008, reports of "mass drinking" caused a sensation in several Swiss cities. In Geneva, the police prevented a second botellón after huge piles of rubbish remained behind the first time. The city of Geneva now tolerates the collective getting drunk on the condition that the initiators guarantee the safety and cleanliness after the party. In return, the city provides toilets.
In Zurich, an invitation to a botellón was held on August 29, 2008 via the Internet platform Facebook , whereupon around 1,800 agreed to participate within a few days. Despite the subsequent cancellation by the organizers, over 7,000 people registered for the botellón, probably thanks to media coverage.
According to the city police and Zurich protection and rescue services , around 2,000 mostly young people took part in the mass drunkenness on the evening of August 29th . According to Schutz und Rettung Zürich, the aggressiveness increased with increasing alcohol consumption and there were several physical disputes. Paramedics were also attacked in isolated cases. A total of 22 people with various injuries and symptoms of alcohol and drug poisoning had to be admitted to the surrounding hospitals. There were also various acts of vandalism. Most of the rubbish bins that were distributed around the area were tipped over by participants. According to media reports, the mass drunkenness left an estimated six tons of waste on Zurich's Blatterwiese. However, since this would mean that a participant generated an average of three kilograms of waste, this information could be a dramatization. Considerable amounts of waste also had to be disposed of in the surrounding streets. The meadow on the lake promenade, which was littered with broken glass and partly polluted with vomit, had to be closed to the population as a result.
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- ↑ El Mundo: Unos 70,000 jóvenes sevillanos se congregan mediante SMS para celebrar la Fiesta de la Primavera
- ↑ Blick : First smart, then blue from August 19, 2008.
- ↑ Switzerland: No alcohol party - police prevent second botellón in Geneva on August 13, 2008
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : City of Zurich wants to prevent mass drinking from August 19, 2008.
- ↑ a b Tages-Anzeiger : Six tons of waste: The big mess the day after on August 30, 2008.
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : “Botellón” participants leave tons of rubbish behind from August 30, 2008.