Six vacationers have been arrested for the alleged gang rape of an 18-year-old British lady on the Spanish vacation island of Mallorca.
Five French vacationers and one Swiss vacationer have been arrested in reference to the rape that allegedly occurred early on Monday in Magaluf, the Spanish Civil Guard stated.
The suspects, all around the age of 20, appeared earlier than a decide in Palma, the principle metropolis in Mallorca, on Tuesday.
Police officers stated there have been video clips of the alleged gang rape on the telephone of not less than one of many suspects.
The decide ordered the lads, none of whom have been formally charged or recognized, to stay in custody because the investigation continues.
Police stated the alleged sufferer claimed she met the lads on Sunday evening and later went to one in all their lodge rooms, the place they allegedly sexually assaulted her.
The lodge’s safety workers reportedly known as the police after they discovered the “young woman crying”.
The alleged sufferer acquired medical therapy and the lads have been detained shortly after.
A police spokesman stated: “We were alerted by the hotel in the early hours of Monday morning after the alleged victim raised the alarm. One set of officers took her to hospital so she could be examined by a doctor, and another team of officers set about trying to locate the alleged aggressors.
“They were arrested over the following hours. The investigation is ongoing and involves a team of officers specialising in investigating alleged sex crimes in Magaluf.”
This is the second alleged gang rape by vacationers in Mallorca inside a number of weeks, with police arresting six German males in July on suspicion of raping an 18-year-old lady 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.
Also final month, two Irishmen have been arrested after a British lady claimed she was raped at a lodge in Magaluf.
They have been held at Palma airport on 19 July as they have been getting ready to board a flight to Dublin, the Civil Guard stated in a press release on the time.
Police stated that they had been detained in custody, pending an investigation.