“People do not walk in the street with bracelets to buy cigarettes” – Daily News – Lisbon

Álvaro Covões, director of In Alive, refused always to deploy a smaller bracelet with identification system. This year, maintains a policy of asking for citizen card to festival-goers

-. Keeps the decision not to use bracelets to identify minors in In Alive, which begins on Thursday?

– Article 70 of the Civil Code: it is forbidden to discriminate. The law already existed. Said that beer and wine was forbidden to children under 16 years, it is now prohibited to minors under 18. The problem does not arise. People do not walk in the street with bracelets to buy cigarettes. I do not know who invented it, but must have a neo-Nazi tics

-. Were detected minors consuming alcohol at the festival.

– you got? I do not know. I’m not police. Who the legislator thought to tell a parent who can not give a beer to a 17 year old son? Our President said in an interview that since 12 years we drank wine on special dinners

-. How do to control the input problems of illicit substances in the room

– in this type of event, all you have to do with security is not we who do, it’s the police. The police do a magazine. Things are done naturally. People come to have fun. Just look at the number of bowel movements. Drug ever had. Alcohol, one, it was a lot. The good behavior rate is huge. We have to see things by size. We are an event with 55,000 people per day. The problem is put when we have sirens ringing and people being evacuated

-. How do you reconcile the supervision of alcohol sales to minors with the fact that one of the major sponsors be a brand beer? Their interest is to sell as much as possible.

Entrepreneurs and companies are not a rogues. Concern comply with the law always existed. Before for over 16 years now for children under 18. What has changed? The echelon. Before put up bracelets.