Rio Steps Up Summer Beach Crackdown as New Glass Rule Takes Effect for Barraqueiros

Overview

• Under a mid‑week municipal decree, licensed tent operators may handle sealed glass bottles of distilled spirits inside tents for drink preparation under SEOP and IVISA‑Rio oversight, while glass on the sand remains banned.
• City teams began installing about 250 shoreline plaques with QR codes to a rules hotsite and reinstated vehicle controls at Prainha and Grumari, closing access once roughly 800 parking spots fill.
• Saturday’s sweep led to 27 suspected illegal parking attendants taken to police stations, 429 tickets for irregular parking, about 50 cars towed, and additional seizures that included grills and gas canisters.
• Despite reinforced patrols with drones and 21 long‑range cameras, reporters still found sales and consumption of prohibited items such as glass bottles on the sand, grilled skewers and mobile loudspeakers.
• For Sunday’s 30th LGBTI+ Pride in Copacabana, the city mobilized roughly 500 municipal agents and the state deployed about 1,360 military police for beach and parade coverage, with GAM aerial support streaming live imagery.