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Magaluf workers ‘heartbroken and disgusted’ after ‘gang rape’ of Brit teen, 18, as party hotel breaks silence
SPAIN'S most infamous party town is reeling from the news of the alleged gang-rape of a British teen by six male tourists.
Club owners, promoters and bar staff are "heartbroken" that such a crime could reportedly take place in their "good time" community.
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Six tourists, including five French nationals and one Swiss, are accused of gang-raping the British woman, 18, in their hotel room.
They are being held in Spain without bail after allegedly filming the assault.
The alleged incident took place in the early hours of Monday morning in "party hotel" BH Mallorca - 400 metres from Magaluf's renowned strip.
The Sun spoke to the security guard who found the alleged victim sobbing on the lobby floor after escaping from her alleged attackers.
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He called cops after finding her at around 5am when he came in for his morning shift.
Majorcan local, Maria, 44, who runs a clothing store on Magaluf's busiest party street, told The Sun she was in utter "shock".
She said: "It was very strange to read the news, we were shocked.
"It is summer yes, and people party and fight and drink too much but nothing this bad. This should not have happened."
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In the bar next door to the hotel where the alleged crime took place, a waiter revealed that the staff couldn't stop thinking about it.
"Everyone knows about this story," he told The Sun.
"Everyone is talking about this story. It is all in the papers, we all know what happened. It is not normal for such a thing to happen here.
"Yes, there is drinking and people from hotel go crazy and we have incidents with drugs and such but not this."
Kelly Mackey, 20, from Ireland, promotes for the popular Lennon's Bar on the main strip.
She described how Magaluf's workers were "heartbroken" by the news.
"This definitely shocked us all, we deal with men disrespecting us and being rude all the time everyday, but we didn't expect something like this to happen," she said.
"We love it here, we feel safe here, but Magaluf has a dark side and men and boys come here to get drunk and treat girls badly.
"We are heartbroken and disgusted.
"People pay good money to come here for a good time and no one expects to be attacked."
A spokesman for BH Mallorca apologised after the alleged incident and said it was cooperating fully with cops.
"The hotel also wants to demonstrate its solidarity with the alleged victim of this aggression," he said.
"We are co-operating fully with the Civil Guard and its investigators in everything they consider to be necessary.";
It's understood the alleged victim had gone back to the hotel the six men were staying at after meeting them at a party on Monday night.
But after going into one of their rooms she was allegedly raped by the holidaymakers.
She managed to escape and ran into the street looking for help.
The alleged victim gave officers a description of the suspects, all in their twenties, and they were tracked down and arrested.
They were pictured in handcuffs as they were led into a court in the Majorcan capital Palma in handcuffs by Civil Guard officers.
All wearing the same t-shirts and shorts they were detained in, they went before a judge at a hearing behind closed doors who remanded them in custody without bail.
A source close to the case said the judge reviewed recordings of the alleged attack taken from the suspect's phones, reports.
Detectives also inspected the room where the alleged attack took place and reviewed CCTV footage of the hotel entrance as part of their investigation.
The woman was checked over by a medic, who is said to have found grip marks on her arms.
An insider said the men will likely remain in custody for "the foreseeable".
The source added: "All six men have been remanded in custody by a judge.
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“They are currently in prison in Majorca and will remain there for the foreseeable future pending any successful attempts by a defence lawyer to secure their release on bail.
“The decision to remand them in custody would not have been taken lightly."
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