Three Brits arrested trying to board flight home after woman raped in Magaluf

25 August 2023 , 18:11

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Magaluf and its beaches are popular with British tourists (Image: Getty Images)

Three British holidaymakers have been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in Magaluf.

Police in Majorca confirmed this afternoon the trio had been held as they tried to board a flight to Manchester. The woman who raised the alarm, who well-placed sources also said is British, is claiming she may have been drugged.

Tests are ongoing for any traces of suspicious substances. A spokesman for the Civil Guard, confirming the arrests today at a hotel in the municipality of Calvia, of which Magaluf is part, said: “The Civil Guard has arrested three young men as the suspected authors of a crime of sexual aggression on a woman at a hotel in Calvia.

“This morning a central response unit received an alert about a possible sexual aggression from a hotel in the municipality. A police patrol went to the hotel and spoke to a young tourist who told them she had been raped in the early hours of this morning by men she had met the night before.

“She also said she had suffered chemical submission, given that she felt completely unwell possibly because of the consumption of some type of drug. She said she didn’t know the identity of the alleged aggressors, just the nickname one of them used on a social network.”

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Explaining she had been taken to hospital so further tests could take place, the spokesman added: “Officers identified the alleged aggressors who had just abandoned the hotel with the intention of taking a flight back to their home country. They were arrested at Palma Airport minutes before they boarded a flight to Manchester.”

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