By Lawrence Conway PUBLISHED: 02:18 EST, 16 June 2012 | UPDATED: 06:40 EST, 18 June 2012 Children are to be banned from a city centre under draconian plans to tackle anti-social behaviour. Critics said the decision to stop anyone under 16 walking the streets of Bangor after dark was akin to something ‘you’d expect in North Korea, not North Wales’. Police are introducing the curfew, believed to be the first time children have been banned from an entire city centre, to rid the area of yobbish behaviour. Ban: Children will be banned from Bangor town centre from Monday as police and the council in the Welsh city attempt to tackle anti-social behaviour
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Unaccompanied under-16s barred from the Welsh city of Bangor
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Civil rights groups complain: 'This is North Wales, not North Korea'
Criminalising every young person in @placeholder – without any need for them to be engaged in any wrongdoing – is an unwarranted and disproportionate intrusion into the civil liberties of thousands of perfectly law-abiding young people.’