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The holidaymaker had been drinking before he fell from the apartment block in Mallorca, Spain
A 50-year-old Irish tourist was rushed to the Son Espases hospital with serious injuries on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca earlier this week after he fell from the second-floor balcony of an apartment in Santa Ponsa.
Guardia Civil officers and Calvia Local Police, together with an ambulance crew found the man unconscious on the street and they noticed a “strong smell of alcohol”, according to reports. Officials are investigating the incident but everything indicates that the tourist plunged from the balcony having ingested a large amount of alcohol.
‘Balconing’ is a risky practice that has become increasingly popular with tourists in resorts like Magaluf and Santa Ponsa in recent years and now carries heavy fines. It involves holidaymakers, often fuelled by booze, climbing over balconies to other apartments, or even diving from a height into the pool below.
Back in 2018, a British tourist narrowly escaped death after falling from a sixth-floor Magaluf apartment in August, reportedly while urinating off the side of the building.
The Irishman’s antics occurred on the same day that Mallorca and British tourism representatives met to discuss the island’s zero-tolerance approach to drunk and disorderly holidaymakers and just days after the Balearic Islands renewed its warning that antisocial behaviour will be met with stiff penalties.
The mayor of Calvia, Alfonso Rodríguez, said that a huge influx of British tourists is expected this summer season with the removal of the majority of Covid travel restrictions, but that officials “will be inflexible in the application of the decree of excesses.”
President of The Hotel Business Federation of Mallorca (FEHM), Maria Frontera added: “Family tourism in the United Kingdom returns again, which is great news, and to this we must add the total agreement between administrations and the private sector to achieve a change in trend and eradicate excess tourism.”
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