Torrevieja’s Major, Pedro Hernández Mateo, has announced several important measures to stop with the so-called graffiti artists that multiply throughout the city. Hernández Mateo has highlighted, among the measures taken to stop with these paintings, the creation of an anti-graffiti's employment workshop subsidized by the Generalitat Valenciana, which could start working already in the year 2010.
The Torrevieja’s Major has also announced the contracting of a graffiti expert to control and certify the signatures of the graffiti artists throughout the city. For that reason, the Local Police is creating a wide dossier with all paintings in the city. Besides, many forms will be made available for all citizens wishing to report a painting and this way, enabling a record to be held by the council.
The Local Police will create a database which will help them classify every painting by signature, place, approximate repair budget, expert’s validation, condition of painting, etc. The objective of this database will be to sanction with the highest amount those who are identified and arrested for damages.
To date, seven people have been arrested in conjunction with Tagging. These seven have caused at least 10,000 euros of damage between them
