Intoxicated German troublemaker tourists have taken over the mantle from boozy Brits in Majorca’s famous holiday resorts.
English holidaymakers have always been branded the worst lawbreakers in the town of Magaluf.
But now the small village of Arenal on the opposite side of the Bay of Palama has become a mecca for young German hoodlums, who are taking advantage of low-cost flights to take 24-hour or 48-hour breaks dedicated to getting intoxicated and taking drugs.
German police officers are now being drafted in to assist the National Police, with 12 expected to patrol the streets of Palma over the next couple of months.
Alain Carbonell told the Majorca Daily Bulletin that some of the tourists didn’t even bother to book hotel accommodation, adding that they were all young, 18 to 20 years old, and they come just to get drunk.
Michael Bormann, proprietor of the Deutsches Eck restaurant in Palma told the paper the party spirit this year was very extreme and some German holidaymakers were behaving to excess.
Beatrice Ciccardini, owner of the Zur Krone restaurant added that it had never been as bad as this year.
She said there was no end to the drinking, and some were still drunk on the streets at nine in the morning.
Locals said the partying season had also been extended, saying it was like a 24-hour party, seven days a week from March to September.
One local, who didn’t want to be named, said they were shocked at how early the tourists started drinking.
He said that they walk up and down the promenade in their football shirts with cans and bottles of beer and play drinking games at all hours of the day and night and that he’s also seen some of the men harassing young girls.
Miguel Pascual, a member of the Arenal residents association said drunk foreigners often enter his garden to take a shortcut to their hotels.
He told the Majorca Daily Bulletin there was one the other day and added that he yelled at him to get out of the garden and when he turned around, he saw that his pants were full of faeces.
The unruly rabble was seen wandering through the resort in football shirts while others had tops with joking graphics appearing to depict their friends.
Others gathered in matching groups in loud patterned ensembles.
For a nation of Germans who are famous for their lack of sense of humour, these German boys are rocking it with their outfits.
It’s not a country thing, it’s an age thing, and there’s an abundance of bad behaviour in other countries as well, and if they don’t want them brawling then they shouldn’t sell them cheap alcohol. These youngsters are away from home, wanting to have a good time and they go where it’s cheap to fly and the booze is affordable.
The Germans have always been the most demanding pretentious troublemakers. They’re rude and believe that they’re special and deserve special treatment, but then every ethnicity all over the world has bad people.
You can’t condemn the Germans. The problem is the product on sale. Affordable travel, affordable accommodation, cheap booze, easy access to drugs, loud dance music and the focus on enticing those under 35s, and whoever is behind this marketing strategy, is to blame.
But it’s a beach resort and like many of them across Europe, high jinx is expected, along with shenanigans which isn’t just exclusive to the Brits and Germans. Every European country has young people holidaying and letting their guard down and enjoying their time away from home.
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