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Casa das Bananas, responsible for the braga tradition that orders to eat a banana and muscat wine hours before Christmas, has issued a statement that it will be open to keep the ritual “outside the store.” But the controversy broke out and the Braga City Council also opposed it.
The mayor, Ricardo Rio, used social networks to remember that, “in addition to being particularly attentive to the concentration of people, the Municipal Police and the PSP will be inflexible” in compliance with the law of the State of Emergency, which prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages in open spaces with public access and public roads.
The mayor emphasizes that “drinking Muscat wine in public spaces is an infringement of the law” and recalls that, “unlike what happened in previous years, the City Council of Braga will not authorize any installation of branches or points of sale in spaces publics associated with this “tradition”.
In the invitation to clients, Casa das Bananas stated that, since the restoration could be open on December 24, they were not “in the right to prevent the realization of such a strong tradition in the city” and were available for sale of bananas. and Muscat “outside the store.”
In the same statement, they called for “customer awareness of the pandemic situation” by “not [poderem] control the social gatherings in the street “and even encourage consumption at home.
But a few hours later, those responsible returned to social networks to defend themselves against criticism. “We will only be open until 8 at night, besides, as we always did that day. We do not encourage any reunions at all. What we ask, and we quote: We ask that, given the situation, this year we fulfill this tradition. content, at home with their families, “he wrote in a message on the Facebook page.
However, for Ricardo Rio, “not doing the traditional Bananeiro will not be a drama for anyone”, recalling that citizens have already had to give up events such as Holy Week, Braga Romana, São João, among other initiatives.
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