On the Italian island of Sardinia police fines tourists for stealing sand

Sardinia police began to patrol local beaches because of the constant sand thefts. Gentside reports about it.

As it became known, a lot of tourists, after vacation in Sardinia, want to take a piece of the island with them and recruit sand from local beaches as a souvenir.

However, according to local laws, it is prohibited to export sand abroad; for this you must pay a fine of € 300 to € 5000.

According to some data, over the past year more than a ton of sand was seized from the baggage of tourists at the airport.

Previously, the “Journalist” reported that in Thailand for another two years extended the ban on the opening of the most popular beach among tourists.