Italian police stop Mick Jagger from partying due to island music ban

ROME — Carabinieri paramilitary police on the volcanic island of Stromboli stopped Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger from partying due to local rules banning music on Wednesdays, Italian media reported.

 Jagger, 82, had been celebrating the wrap party of his new film ‘Three Incestuous Sisters’ in which he plays the lighthouse keeper. He had been celebrating with co-stars including Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor when police interrupted the festivities. Italian director and Academy Award winner, Paolo Sorrentino, was also present. The Aeolian island, located off the coast of Sicily, prohibits music being played in bars on Wednesdays.

 According to local bookseller Roberta Denti, who recounted the story on social media, the A-Listers had allegedly being playing music through a small speaker at “reasonable volume” when the party was interrupted due to complaints from residents once the clock struck midnight.

 Rosa Oliva, the head of sustainable tourism company Pro Loco Amo Stromboli, criticised the actions of the police as “punitive intervention.”

 In her statement to Italian media, she added that Riccardo Gullo, the mayor of Lipari, the archipelago capital which administers Stromboli, would have been better welcoming the guests for “their crucial contribution to the Aeolian economy” as Stromboli “lives off tourism.”

 Jagger and the other party goers left the island on Thursday, as initially planned before the party shut-down.

 Compared to the rash of drugs charges that Mick faced in his youth, however, being busted by the Carabinieri for allegedly playing loud music is unlikely to have perturbed him unduly.

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