He Monegros Desert Festival will take 45,000 lovers of electronic music to its enclosure in the vicinity of the vicinity of electronic music on Saturday Fraga. At the height of the magnitude of this event, there will also be the organized security device, which this time will have 500 civil guards of different specialties and the reinforcement of the French national gendarmerie.
The festival, which begins at 12 noon on Saturday and extends until the same time on Sunday, is located in the km. 416 of the N-2 and receives thousands of vehicles in a very short period of time, so traffic management is one of the main device challenges.
From the Civil Guard Traffic Subsector of Huesca Supports from the traffic subsectors of the Civil Guard of Zaragoza, Teruel, Madrid Norte, Madrid Sur, Cuenca and La Rioja will be received. Its presence will serve to strengthen the different controls that will be carried out, guarantee road safety, try to minimize traffic conditions in the area of access to the enclosure and cause minors possible to the rest of the road users.
For this, one of the two lanes of the N-2 that come from Catalonia will be enabled, for access to the event, and the traffic of heavy vehicles will be restricted in the N-2 during Saturday and Sunday so that the circulatory flow runs normally, there are warning posters in the provinces of Lleida and Saragossa.
Civil Guard recommendations to drivers
To plan the trip if they are going to circulate on the affected road/s, anticipating at the beginning of the festival or using alternative routes in their case.
If they have accommodation provided for in any establishment in the area, inform themselves with the address of the establishment with respect to the affected roads to calculate their arrival schedule.
Circular with caution, being attentive to signaling, informative posters and the indications of the agents.
Controls carried out in previous years. Photo: Civil Guard
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Within the security device there will be agents belonging to different operational and logistical support units to said units of the province of Huesca: Citizen Security, Judicial Police, SEPRONA (Nature Protection Service), Usecic, Huesca Traffic Subsector, Prosecutor and Borders Detachment, Cinological Service (Drug Detecting Dogs), Air Unit, etc.
On the other hand, there will be reinforcements from other Civil Guard units, such as Usecic de Zaragoza, Lleida and Teruel, Pegaso team, the GRS (Reserve and Security Group) of Madrid and Barcelona with Antidrón Unit, of the GEDEX (Special Group of Deactivation of Explosives) of the Civil Guard of Zaragoza and the cynological service of Zaragoza with specialized dogs in search of explosives, central service of Madrid With dogs specialized in drug search, telecommunications service from other provinces and the cavalry group located in Madrid will also attend.
As in previous years, the presence of the French national gendarmerie specialists in citizen security, all within the collaboration that is usually carried out between the Civil Guard and the Gendarmerie.
