Man fled outside after 'nasty fight involving bottles' broke out in flat complex above Punta Ballena party strip
THIS is the extraordinary moment a British holidaymaker risks his life by trying to jump between balconies at his Magaluf hotel "to escape a fight" between drunken holidaymakers.
Onlookers in the street below jeer and shine lasers in his face as the man edges along the second-storey ledge, while a doorman urges him to step back to safety.
Another woman believed to be a tourist staying at the same hotel begins to shout at him from a balcony to the right, saying in English: "Get off, get off".
Moments later the pair appeared to argue as he continued to move along the balcony ledge, before he was ordered back to his room by a female police officer who appeared on the floor above.
He was eventually filmed being pulled back over the railings into his apartment by two pals, as revellers on the ground reacted with a mixture of cheers and boos.
Police in the Majorca party resort said the man stepped out on the ledge in a bid to escape a fight that ended with three Brits being arrested and two of them needing hospital treatment.
A Civil Guard spokesman said: “The man being filmed was not trying to jump off the balcony or jump between balconies.
“He was in a room where a very nasty fight started and was trying to get away from it.
“Three British men suspected of involvement in the altercation, two of whom required hospital treatment, were arrested and taken to court after questioning.
“The man in the footage was a witness and wasn’t arrested.
“His original intention was to get away from the fight and then when he saw people on other balconies, try to seek help.”
A source said: “It was a pretty nasty fight and involved bottles.
“The three Brits arrested were all released on bail after being hauled to court.”
The holiday apartments where the incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning are in the heart of Magaluf party strip Punta Ballena, just above Chaplin’s Bar which is popular with Brits.
One holidaymaker who stayed there last year wrote on TripAdvisor: “Disgusting. No room service. Was there a week and they didn’t change the towels.”
A couple who stayed in July last year said: “The apartments are very basic but this is what you pay for.
“The staff are very friendly. Your room does not get cleaned while you are there and you have to ask for toilet paper.
“On our first night we came home to find someone breaking into our room via the balcony. Luckily we caught him in time.”
Several Brits have died in recent years in falls from hotels in Magaluf, although there have been no similar fatalities so far this year in the resort following a get-tough approach by local authorities which have seen them fine several people for “anti-social” behaviour.
Three young Brits - two men and a woman - died in less than a month in the holiday hotspot in 2012 in falls at their hotels.
Charlotte Serginson, from Middlesbrough, cheated death but was left seriously injured after plunging from a sixth-floor balcony in May 2012 at the Hotel Marina Barracuda in Magaluf.
Earlier this month three Brits were fined following a shocking street fight in Magaluf’s Punta Ballena strip after the England-Scotland match.
Police spent part of last week trying to track down two British women filmed naked in Magaluf after a night out partying the weekend before last.
One was completely starkers and the other was wearing just a G-string and carrying her clothes in her arms.
At the start of last week Magaluf’s mayor told the British tourists hurting his town hall’s attempts to improve the resort’s image: “We don’t want you here.”
He also called on party bars and hotels to do away with free drink and Happy Hour offers.
Today we told how terrified swimmers scrambled for safety when an 8ft shark appeared in the shallows near the beach in Magaluf.
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