Rowdy Brits in Magaluf could be TASERED by cops if boozy partying continues next summer
Councillors in the area are due to debate a proposal next week to hand local police stun guns to tackle drunken tourists
ROWDY Brit holidaymakers in Magaluf could find themselves being tasered by cops next summer if they get out of line, under new plans.
Councillors in the area are due to debate a proposal next week to hand local police stun guns to use on violent tourists.
Carlos Tarancon, leader of the opposition centre-right Ciudadanos party, says he backed the move after talking with officers about their difficulties dealing with drunken troublemakers in areas like Magaluf’s Punta Ballena strip.
Stun guns could also be rolled out at other party hotspots like Ramon de Montcada Street in Santa Ponsa, which is part of the same municipality of Calvia as Magaluf.
The brash street is more popular with Irish tourists as opposed to Punta Ballena which is a Brit favourite.
It hit headlines in July when a Civil Guard officer was filmed using his truncheon on holidaymakers blocking the road.
Punta Ballena was branded as “500 metres of shame” by a former regional president.
The strip saw England and Scotland football fans clash after a World Cup qualifier in June, with drunken hooligans throwing chairs at each other in the street in ugly scenes.
Mr Tarancon is a practising lawyer and part of the Mixed Group of councillors in Calvia who in the past has demanded “zero tolerance” from the left-wing-led town hall against yobbish Brit tourists.
He claims the guns and batons local police currently use are not always the answer with violent people.
He told local paper Diario de Mallorca the batons “can do quite a lot of damage and can even cause broken bones” and guns can only be used in cases of “extreme danger” and not to reduce someone resisting arrest.
Mr Tarancon insisted officers often had to resort to using martial art-type holds to immobilise problem drunken holidaymakers, resulting in more violence and occasional injuries to police.
He added: “In other European countries they are starting to use stun guns.
“It doesn’t mean they are used constantly, just in situations of extreme necessity.
“That’s why we’re raising it at the next full council meeting, because we understand that the security and physical integrity of our local police should be protected.”
The motion put forward by Ciudadanos, which has 25 MPs in Spain and is strongly opposed to Catalan independence, proposes a study of economic viability to establish the number of stun guns Calvia Council can buy.
The controversial weapon has been linked to a number of deaths since they were introduced in other police forces.
In August 2016 the former Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson died after being tasered by the police following a clash outside his father’s home in Telford, Shropshire.
Mr Tarancon has been vocal in his calls for a “zero tolerance” policy against tourists who breach by-laws on things like public nudity.
In June he urged the council to take an “uncompromising stance” against a group of British holidaymakers who took part in a naked run through the streets of Magaluf’s neighbouring resort of Palmanova.
The male tourists, who stripped off for a starkers broad-daylight skinny-dip before jogging back to their hotel, ended up being fined.
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