Spain‘s tourism minister has finally condemned the mob of Barcelonians who soaked holidaymakers with water pistols, in the country’s latest protest against tourists.
Last week, thousands of protestors marched through central Barcelona, waving placards and squirting holidaymakers with water guns in the latest expression of anger at perceived overtourism in Spain.
Under the slogan ‘Enough! Let’s put limits on tourism’, some 2,800 people – according to police – marched along a waterfront district of Barcelona to demand a new economic model that would reduce the millions of tourists that visit every year.
Protesters carried signs reading ‘Barcelona is not for sale,’ and, ‘Tourists go home,’ before some used water guns on tourists eating outdoors at restaurants in popular tourist hotspots. Chants of ‘Tourists out of our neighbourhood’ rang out as some stopped in front of the entrances to hotels.
Tourism minister Jordi Hereu, who previously served as Barcelona’s mayor told reporters that…