A massive fight in Magaluf (Mallorca) has ended with a dozen people arrested and eleven injured, five of them Civil Guard agents who went to the point where the fight was taking place. More than 50 people participated in a fight that began in a nightclub in this area of ​​Mallorca, known for being one of the centers of excess tourism on the island.
On this occasion, it was not just a fight between tourists, but people of different nationalities participated, including tourists and residents of Mallorca. The agents of the Civil Guard received a call at dawn on Sunday in which they were informed that a fight was taking place at the gates of a nightclub in which fifty people participated.
Agents from the Civil Guard and the Calvià Local Police arrived in the area and tried to end the fight and get the participants to disperse. During the performance, the civil guards arrested two women, one for attacking an agent of the authority, when trying to attack one of the agents, and the other, for damage to a Calvià Local Police vehicle.
A man was also arrested for injuries after he punched another of the participants in the fight. The man was left unconscious and badly injured and had to be transferred to a hospital. As a result of the intervention of the agents, five civil guards required medical assistance for minor injuries, while six participants in the fight were injured, one of them seriously.
The agents began an investigation into the fight and viewed the images recorded by various video cameras in the area. Thanks to these investigations, it was discovered that the fight had been started by some Portuguese tourists, who were staying at a hotel in Arenal, where they have been arrested. Several young residents of the Island also participated in the fight.
The Magaluf area is one of the centers of the so-called ‘excess tourism’, which the Balearic authorities are trying to combat. The Balearic Government has approved a decree with various measures to prevent alcohol consumption in the area, with the prohibition of sale in shops. Nor are the offers of alcoholic rounds allowed by the bars of Magaluf, the so-called ‘pub crawling’, common until now in this area, among other measures.
