Spain: five French people arrested for sexual assault in a meeting

by time news

2023-08-17 01:36:51

When the holidays turn into a nightmare. An 18-year-old Briton accuses six men of raping her in a hotel room in the seaside resort of Magaluf on the Spanish island of Mallorca in the Balearic archipelago. Five French and one Swiss were arrested by the local gendarmerie which is continuing an investigation for “sexual assault”. According to Guillermo Esteban, a journalist from the local press, the suspects allegedly filmed “a clear scene of rape” with their mobile phones.

The young woman called for help

The British tourist met her attackers at a party on the island. She would have followed them to their hotel near the beach, an establishment “accustomed to this type of incident”, assures Guillermo Esteban. The facts took place “at dawn”, specify the police who seized the images of remote surveillance of the hotel. the raconte world that the assault occurred in the bedroom of one of the arrested men. The young woman was able to get out of the room and called for help. She was taken to hospital and law enforcement quickly arrested the six men described by the victim. “These are young men in their twenties,” says Guillermo Esteban, who was able to speak to one of their lawyers: “The hearing lasted more than twelve hours, there were a lot of videos on their phones.” For his part, the victim would have made confused remarks to the judge, still in shock. The six suspects are imprisoned in Mallorca pending trial.

Very popular with young Europeans, Magaluf is a seaside resort in the west of Majorca known to be one of the epicenters of “ethyl tourism” on “the island of 1001 faces”.

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