Shock moment drunk Germany fan URINATES from first-floor balcony onto Majorca street ahead of opening Euros clash
THIS is the shock moment a drunk Germany fan urinates from a first-floor balcony onto a Majorca street ahead of Friday’s opening Euros clash against Scotland.
The shaven-headed lout relieved himself in broad daylight over the canopies of shops as horrified onlookers yelled at him and demanded he stop.
One of the establishments below included a seafront clothes store where one English-speaking man, believed to be a local trader, fumed at the careless foreigner.
The response of the German tourist, who was wearing an armband in his country’s colours as they ran out 5-1 victors over Scotland last night, was an unintelligible one-word response – suggesting he was heavily intoxicated.
After zipping himself up and staggering back across the terrace to his holiday apartment, one onlooker could be heard in Spanish urging another to call the police.
It was not immediately clear whether officers had responded and arrested him.
The rank scene occurred yesterday in the party resort of S’Arenal on the eastern end of Playa de Palma near the Majorcan capital.
It offered the latest proof of how Germans appear to be taking the lead over badly-behaving British holidaymakers who previously made all the headlines with their antics in Magaluf.
The graphic new example of tourist misbehaviour comes at a time when feelings on the island are at boiling point because of tourist saturation and anger over the type of visitors parts of Majorca attracts.
Last Sunday, police arrested a drunk German tourist who interrupted his holiday in Majorca to try to steal a €350,000 (£295,000) bulldozer he ended up crashing.
The idiotic 26-year-old cheated death after overturning the 25-tonne vehicle on the edge of a steep drop at the quarry he broke into near his hotel in S’Arenal.
He was held after running to a nearby house covered in blood to seek help.
The quarry owners said afterwards the bulldozer was a write-off and they were pressing charges against the holidaymaker who now faces a criminal probe and a huge compensation bill.
Police sources said at the time the tourist was lucky to be alive as it overturned right by a 30ft drop.
Two German tourists have already fallen to their deaths so far this year in the S’Arenal area.
Last month, riot police were forced to use rubber bullets to disperse a group of German football hooligans running wild.
The holidaymaker bad behaviour has helped fuel the increasing anti-mass tourism protests in places like Majorca and Ibiza.
Tomorrow, the stunning east coast Majorcan cove of Calo des Moro is set to be taken over by supporters of a campaign to ‘squeeze’ out tourists who have made the famous beach a no-go area for locals in summer.
An estimated 15,000 people took part in a anti-mass tourism protest in Palma on May 25, which led to one of the organisers having to apologise afterwards for abuse directed at some foreign holidaymakers.
Shocked holidaymakers were booed and jeered by some locals as they ate evening meals on terraces in Palma’s Weyler Square.
Marchers were also heard chanting “Tourists go home” as they passed through the central square on the 20-minute route from the park where the protest began to iconic street Paseo del Borne.
The banners campaigners carried included one with the offensive message: “Salvem Mallorca, guiris arruix’ which in Catalan Spanish means “Let’s save Majorca, foreigners out”.
It played on the colloquial Spanish expression Guiri which is used to portray northern European tourists like the British holidaymakers partying in Magaluf, usually in a mildly offensive way.
Another placard said in Catalan: “Where you look they’re all guiris.”
The Palma protest took place a day after around 1,000 people massed outside Ibiza Council’s HQ to vent their anger over the effects of mass tourism.
Campaigners held up banners saying “We don’t want an island of cement” and “Tourism, yes but not like this”.
The organisers of the Ibiza demo, a group called Prou Eivissa, met with Ibiza’s president Vicent Mari before taking to the streets.
Their demands include a limit on the number of vehicles that can enter the island in summer and a ban on using taxpayers’ cash to promote Ibiza as a tourist destination.
A letter was read out at the end of the protest from an Ibiza-born woman who linked her decision to leave the island with her family and move to the Spanish mainland to a “destructive” tourist model that had led to “more cars, more tourists and more incivility.”
Last Saturday, around 1,000 people packed into a central square in the Menorcan capital Mahon in the latest anti-mass tourism protest in the region.
Some of the locals taking part in the demo in the square outside the island council HQ turned up with deckchairs, towels and sunshades as they mocked up a beach for the day on the concrete.
Ahead of the protest, lead organiser GOB Menorca pointed the finger at “colonising tourism” and appeared to highlight problems like Airbnb-style holiday rentals which have been linked to a lack of affordable housing.
Anti-tourist measures sweeping hotspots
A WAVE of anti-tourist measures are being implemented across Europe to curb mass tourism in popular holiday hotspots.
Overcrowding has become the main problem in many sunny destinations, with authorities trying to find a solution to keep tourists and locals happy.
Officials have attempted to reduce the impact of holidaymakers by implementing additional taxes on tourists, or banning new hotels.
Earlier this year Venice became the first city in the world to charge an entry fee for holidaymakers after it started charging day-trippers €5 (£4.30) if visiting the historical Italian centre.
It was followed by an area in Barcelona which resorted to removing a well-used bus route from Apple and Google Maps to stop crowds of tourists from using the bus.
Meanwhile, San Sebastián in the north of Spain, limited the maximum number of people on guided visits to 25 to avoid congestion, noise, nuisance and overcrowding.
The city has already banned the construction of new hotels.
The Spanish government has allowed restaurants to charge customers more for sitting in the shade in Andalucia.
Benidorm has introduced time restrictions, as swimming in the sea between midnight and 7am could cost a whopping £1,000.
The Canary Islands are also considering adopting measures to regulate the number of visitors – and charge tourists a daily tax.
Greece has already enforced a tourist tax during the high season (from March to October) with visitors expected to pay from €1 (£0.86) to €4 (£3.45) per night, depending on the booked accommodation.
Officials in Santiago de Compostela in Galicia want to introduce a fee for travellers to remind people to be courteous during their trips.
“For years, Menorca has been increasing excess tourism and the congestion is getting worse,” they said.
“Colonizing tourism has been gaining ground, first on the coast, then in the countryside, then towns and now also in our homes.”
Protestors carried placards which read in Catalan: “Whoever loves Menorca doesn’t sell it” and “I can’t swim in the sea because it’s full of boats.”
Local Pau Marques, who turned up in swimming trunks under a hotel-style spa robe, said: “Today we’re dressing up as tourists, so perhaps they’ll listen to us.”
Campaigners are currently working on a huge Canary Islands-style demo across the Balearic Islands planned for next month at the height of the holiday season.
July 21 has been put forward as the probable date for the show of strength in the archipelago off eastern Spain – on Majorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera.
Organisers are predicting it will be the largest protest of its kind in Spain since thousands took to the streets across the Canary Islands on April 20.
The July 21 date was agreed upon as a working proposal at an assembly in the eastern Majorcan town of Manacor just over a week ago.
The organisers of the May 25 Majorca protest, a group called Menys Turisme, Mes Vida which in English translates as Less Tourism, More Life, called the meeting.
