Spanish police break up COVID-breaching 70-person orgy on New Year's Eve

  • 03/01/2022
Spanish police break up COVID-breaching 70-person orgy on New Year's Eve
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A group of Spanish police officers had an unusual start to 2022 as they broke up a New Year's Eve orgy that violated local COVID-19 regulations.

Spanish paper El Mundo reports the officers discovered between 50 and 70 people at a home in Lliçà d'Amunt near Barcelona.

They were found after two invited guests knocked tried to enter the wrong house. The man living there raised the alarm and when police arrived, the pair explained they were going to the orgy but had got the wrong address.

When police arrived at the house where the party was taking place, they found up to 70 people there engaged in group sex, said to be "all Americans with prostitutes" who rented the house over the New Year period, El Mundo reports.

The owner of the house knew the gathering was set to take place, the outlet claims.

Newly-introduced COVID restrictions in Spain's northeast Catalan region meant a maximum of 10 people could meet up for New Year's Eve celebrations. A curfew from 1am to 6am is also in force.

It isn't the first time people have breached COVID-19 rules by taking part in an orgy. In late 2020, József Szájer - an MEP (Member of European Parliament) from Hungary's ruling Fidesz party - quit after he was caught fleeing from what was described as a 25-man orgy in Brussels, Belgium.

Police found 25 naked men at the gathering, including Szájer and two diplomats from the EU, Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure reported.