The first evening of the ULTRA Europe festival in Split, held last night in the Youth Park, ended with 119 people arrested, mostly for drugs, of which 76 were foreigners, and the police collected about 50 thousand euros in fines for drugs.
The Split police have learned that they have arrested 119 people, three of them for criminal offenses and the rest for misdemeanors, mainly due to the abuse of narcotic drugs. Two of the applicants were taken into custody, and the third is undergoing regular proceedings. All three criminally reported persons are Croatian citizens.
“The curiosity compared to previous years and the previous Ultras is that not a single brazen theft or in general not a single property crime was reported. Of the 119 detained, 76 were foreigners, and 43 were local citizens. In total, we collected 49,764 euros in fines due to drug abuse. We were 100% proactive and I think that those who were arrested in previous years understood who they were dealing with,” said the head of prevention affairs of the Split police, Paško Ugrina.
The ambulance workers had no less work to do, and according to information from the Emergency Medical Assistance doctor dr. Jelena Aranza, during the first evening, they had 41 interventions, of which two people were sent to the Emergency Surgery Department for further processing, and one each to the Emergency Internal Medicine Department and Pediatrics of KBC Split.
“Among the 41 people who sought medical help, there were 26 foreigners. We had six cases of alcohol intoxication, two overdoses of stimulants, and the vast majority were minor physical injuries such as wounds, bruises, sprains, strains, two fractures, a lot of pain and even some allergic reactions from previous sunbathing,” said Aranza to Hina news agency.
The event was also secured by firefighters, 18 of them with six vehicles, but they had no intervention. The workers of the city company Čistoća have been on the field since early morning, 60 of them with 20 vehicles, who concentrated on the three streets around the Croatian Navy Youth Park, Domovinsko rata and Put Supavla, as well as the stadium itself, which in the first hours of today was almost clean and ready for the second night tonight, reports Hina.
