The local Operational Coordination Center (CECOPAL) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has revealed the first incidents of the Chicharrero Carnival, specifically the Burial of the Sardine of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in what can be considered a quiet night.
Only eight people had to be treated at the Hospital del Carnaval located in Plaza General Gutiérrez Mellado in the capital of Tenerife. Seven adults and a minor passed through the facilities, in which four alcohol poisonings, two injuries, in addition to two other people for “other causes” were treated. Only one person had to be referred to Candelaria.
The Carnival recovered its long-awaited street last night. In the moments prior to the beginning of the Burial of the Sardine according to San Juan, the mood for a party was in the air. Pepe Benavente and El Morocho began to sing Santa Cruz en Carnaval from the float and put music and voice to that desire, while the public, crowded on the sidewalks, waited for the start of the tour.
At 9:00 p.m., in rigorous mourning and with a deafening murmur, a timid but encouraging procession that accompanied the Sardine, disguised on this occasion as COVID-19, started from Calle Juan Pablo II. With a significant number of people gathered on the sidewalks, widows with priests, nuns with devils, the famous buttons of the House of Fear, the Legionaries and the Brotherhood of the Chicharro of the Afilarmónica Ni Fú-Ni Fá were in charge of make way, after two years of hiatus, for Don Carnal through the crowded streets of Santa Cruz.
