The facts come from the summer of 2018, on board a Renfe train traveling between Madrid and Malaga. But the young revelers celebrating a bachelorette party have just been sentenced.
A little too noisy bachelor party. On July 6, 2018, a group of 11 young men celebrating a bachelor party wreaked havoc on a Renfe train running between Madrid and Malaga. The Spanish company was forced to stop the train, causing delays and compensation for the 216 other passengers.
This Monday, October 24, more than four years after the events, Renfe published a press release on its website to explain that these revelers have been ordered by the Spanish courts to pay 697.82 euros in damages each, which is a Total damage of more than 7,600 euros, as our colleagues from The Independent have discovered.
Uncontrollable passengers
During the events, these young people who were “shouting, singing, banging against the walls of the train and disobeying the calls for silence from Renfe employees” had quite simply forced the company to apply its rules on “evacuation of passengers”, which “cause disturbances or endanger traffic safety”, the press release further specifies.
Worse, during this forced stopover in Cordoba, before the final stop in Malaga, “the defendants took the opportunity to definitely intensify their private party in the train cafeteria, where they drank, danced, sang and argued in a completely uncontrolled manner,” it said again renfe The police even had to intervene to force them off and the train finally arrived 23 minutes late.