Majorca
With a private detective against drinking tourism at “Ballermann”
People are walking on the promenade on the Arenal beach (archive picture). Restaurateurs want to use a private detective to collect evidence against drunken tourists. photo
© Clara Margais/dpa
Drunken and rowdy tourists at the “Ballermann” in Mallorca are a thorn in the side of the restaurateurs at the “Playa de Palma”. You rely on the services of a private investigator and want to file a complaint.
Due to the excesses at the notorious “Ballermann”, the German holiday resort in the south of the Spanish Mediterranean island, the AHPP used a private investigator for the first time last summer. The man documented 812 violations with photos and videos within just nine days – “and that alone in three streets,” emphasized Fernández de Alarcón.
The excesses, which according to entrepreneurs and residents at the “Ballermann” are getting worse every year, include theft, fights, alcohol consumption on the street and the sale of alcohol outside the permitted times. Investigations by the local police almost never exist, explained Fernández de Alarcón. This year they want to report themselves.