Majorca: Six vacationers arrested over alleged rape of British teenager in Magaluf

Six folks have been arrested over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old British lady on the Spanish vacation island of Majorca.

The suspects, together with 5 French and one Swiss, are all vacationers.

They had been detained shortly after the alleged assault on Monday, within the well-liked occasion vacation spot of Magaluf.

All six are over 20 years of age.

A decide in Palma discovered there have been video clips of the alleged rape on a minimum of one of many suspects’ telephones, police stated.

Officers cited the sufferer’s assertion the place she stated she met the suspects and later went again to the lodge room of one in all them, the place she was allegedly sexually assaulted by all six.

The sufferer was present in a distressed state by the lodge’s safety, which referred to as the Civil Guard – one in all Spain’s nationwide police forces.

The alleged sufferer obtained instant medical consideration and counselling.

The detainees appeared earlier than a decide in a courtroom in Palma on Tuesday.

They are all being held in jail, however haven’t been formally charged, because the investigation is ongoing.

Gang rape is taken into account an aggravating issue that may carry sentences of as much as 15 years of jail in Spain.

Several circumstances of gang rape in recent times have shocked the nation.