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Fake warning signs appear on Mallorca beaches to get rid of tourists
Beach wars have been raging across Spain all summer between locals and holidaymakers
The beach wars being waged between tourists and Spanish locals are heating up in Mallorca with the appearance of fake warning signs on dozens of beaches designed to stop tourists taking the prime bathing spots.
Anti-capitalist activists Caterva have claimed responsibility for the hoax, announcing on Twitter that they are taking action against the enormous influx of foreign holidaymakers on the beaches of Mallorca.
Some of the bogus signs warn of jellyfish and loose rocks, while others claim the shoreline is a three-hour walk away. However, the notices all have messages below in Catalan letting locals know that the warnings are fake.One reads: “Beach open. Not to jellyfish nor foreigners” while another says: “Come in. The danger is not of a landslide, it is of overcrowding.”
Caterva claims that the signs, which have been erected between Cala Morlanda and Cala Bota in Mallorca, are only a bit of fun, but the group has openly criticised tennis star Rafael Nadal in the past for attracting too many tourists to the island with his restaurant.
The group added: “The usurpation of the coves is just another expression of how capitalism uses an economic activity like tourism, taken to the extreme, to dry out the territory for free and to extract the maximum surplus value from the workers.”
Between the so-called umbrella wars raging in Benidorm and the ban on reserving beach space in the likes of San Javier, many tourists are fed up with the treatment they are receiving at the hands of Spanish locals.One regular visitor to Mallorca, Briton Ian Jennings, said he now plans to take his business elsewhere: “I love Mallorca and have gone most years but if this is their attitude then, I’m sorry, but screw them. I don’t want to go anywhere I’m not wanted. I’ll be taking my cash and beach towels elsewhere — and I suspect there will be millions more Brits like me. Let’s see what they moan about on their rude signs then.”
Images: Caterva/Twitter
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