The National Police has arrested six German tourists in Mallorca for an alleged gang rape of a compatriot while they were on holiday on the island. The young people are aged between 21 and 23, while the victim is only 18. Some of them recorded the assault with their mobile phones, according to the investigators. The rape took place on Thursday morning in the Palma beach area, a tourist area very close to Palma, frequented by Germans. It is one of the main holiday areas and one of the areas that concentrates excess tourism in Mallorca.
The investigators have evidence that the young woman was at a nightclub in this area with a group of friends when she met one of the compatriots. Both intimated while they were at the leisure club and, at one point, they decided to go to the hotel where the group of girls was spending their holidays. However, when they arrived at the establishment, the concierge wouldn’t let them in, so they changed their plans.
The Police have confirmed that, at that moment, they decided to go to the hotel where the boy was spending his holidays with a group of friends. That’s when the problems began for the young woman. The first investigations indicate that the girl and the young man she had met at the disco arrived in the room, where the friends were, who had consumed a lot of alcohol. Apparently, the two young men had consensual sexual relations, but, based on this data, the story is more confusing. It is believed that the young woman also agreed to maintain relations with another of the boys and that at that time the other young men tried to join her. The girl refused, she tried to leave the room when she saw that she was in danger, but the tourists prevented her from doing so and that’s when the gang rape took place.
Several young people recorded the assault with their mobile phones and this is one of the pieces of evidence that the National Police now have in their hands to clarify what happened that night. The young woman left the room in a state of shock and was attended to by a receptionist, who immediately called the National Police. The Police informs that the arrests took place at 3.40 am on Thursday, following a tip from the hotel employee.
Initially, the five boys who were in the room were arrested, but hours later the sixth companion, with whom the girl had contacted at the nightclub, was also arrested. All of them are in custody and it is expected that they will appear in court today to determine whether or not they will go to prison. The Family and Women’s Unit has taken over the investigations, and will be the ones to investigate what happened, but for now the young people are accused of a crime of rape and possibly of a crime of neglect of the duty of care, since at least two of the tourists did not participate in the assault, but neither did they help the young woman or do anything to prevent it.
When the police arrived at the hotel, the young woman was very agitated, for this reason she had to be treated by the medical services. After the arrest, the young men argue in their defense that the sexual relations were consensual with all of them and that the girl also agreed to the recording of everything, a theory that is not shared by the investigators after seeing some of what was recorded on mobile phones.
