Drunk canal bathers

  • 2008-08-18
  • In cooperation with BNS

RIGA- Five drunk British men took a bath inthe Riga canal by the Latvian National Opera house and are facing a fine of50 lats (EUR 71).

Riga Regional Police Department representative Zane Berzina told The Baltic News Service that at 9 p.m. on Aug. 17, when the Rigacity festival was still taking place in the Latvian capital, five drunk Britishnationals were detained for bathing in the Rigacanal.

The detained men, ages 27-28, said they did not know it was forbidden tobathe in the canal.

Administrative offence protocols have been drawn up and the maximumpunishment for the offense is a 50 lats fine.