5 French vacationers and 1 Swiss arrested for the gang rape of a younger British lady in Spain

BARCELONA, Spain — Spanish Civil Guard police stated Wednesday they’ve arrested 5 French vacationers and one Swiss vacationer for allegedly raping an 18-year-old British lady on the island of Mallorca.

The rape allegedly occurred early Monday in Magaluf, a vacationer spot within the city of Calvià, a highly regarded occasion vacation spot for younger vacationers.

A choose in Palma, the primary metropolis in Mallorca, discovered there have been video clips of the alleged rape on at the very least one of many suspects’ telephones, police stated.

The police press workplace in Mallorca cited the alleged sufferer’s assertion as saying she met the suspected rapists Monday evening and later went to one of many lodge room of one of many suspects, the place she was allegedly sexually assaulted by the six.

Civil Guard confirmed up on the lodge after receiving a telephone name from the lodge’s safety workers who discovered the younger lady crying in desperation. Police detained the suspects shortly after.

All of them are over 20 years of age.

The alleged sufferer obtained fast medical consideration and counseling. The Civil Guard took the detainees earlier than a choose in a court docket in Palma de Mallorca on Tuesday.

Though the suspects are being held in jail, none of them has been formally charged as but, because the investigation is ongoing. There have been no particulars launched on their identities nor that of the alleged sufferer.

That is the second incident of an alleged gang rape by younger vacationers in Mallorca in current weeks. In mid-July, police arrested six younger German males for the alleged rape of an 18-year-old German lady in a lodge on the island.

Gang rape is taken into account an aggravating issue that may carry sentences of as much as 15 years of jail in Spain. A number of {cases} of gang rape in recent times have shocked the nation.