Magaluf locals launch protest petition against boozed-up tourists who have sex and fight in the streets
A protest petition has been launched on Change.org which calls on the local council and police to do something about the 'shameful behaviour'
FED-UP residents and business owners in the resort of Mallorca are revolting against "anything goes, cheap tourism."
Following on from a string of incidents involving boozed-up Brits, including when a group of 18 men ran naked along the sea-front, they have launched a petition calling for new police measures.
A protest petition has been launched on the platform Change.org which calls on the local council and police to do something as a matter of urgency.
They say behaviour such as urinating and vomiting in the street, public sex acts, syringes on the beach, fighting and vandalism can no longer be tolerated.
The message on the petition reads: "This is not tourism nor is quality, it is over exploitation of our resources at a cheap price."
The complaints pick out the areas of Magaluf, Punta Ballena and Palma Nova, as well as the resorts of S'Arenal and Playa de Palma, all popular with young Brits.
As the summer season swings into action, tourists have been photographed drunk and sick in the streets, brawling, boozing and streaking, everything tourism chiefs have been trying to stamp out.
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Council leaders say they are in despair because a few days of bad publicity will damage the good family image they have been trying to cultivate over the last year.
The police and local authorities have been working towards a new system to deter bad behaviour.
Fines are now being handed out for a range of offences, including the crime of being naked in a public place - the 18 Brits who streaked along the promenade were each fined 200 euros.
But fed-up residents fear this won't act as enough of deterrent.
So far, more than 3,500 people have signed the protest petition on Change.org
It states: "It seems that the arrival of heat, as every year, is for these areas of Mallorca synonymous with altercations with tourism."
The petition continues: "Images such as people vomiting and urinating in the street, people throwing glass bottles in the sea, plastics, papers, glass and all kinds of dirt on the streets and in the sand, sex scenes on the street or in public, syringes on the beach, shouting and continuous fights, megaphones and loud music, damaged cars, lack of respect for island residents, aggression towards pedestrians, ambulances attending daily comas, fights and balconing."
"All this and more is seen daily both during the day and at night in the areas of S'arenal, Playa de Palma, Palmanova, Magaluf and Punta Ballena area."
"Residents cannot coexist any more with this type of cheap tourism of the 'everything goes' variety.
"A tourism without quality or respect towards the public areas or even to our beaches, where you cannot go with dogs because of glass and all kinds of dirt. "
"Please, we ask the Government of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca council and the respective town councils of the affected areas, to be coordinated in their respective responsibilities; to exercise effectively and as quickly as possible disciplinary measures, fines and sanctions against any person who acts in the face of a lack of civility and / or who foul our beaches and streets. "
";With effective policing, we say yes to tourism but not to disrespect.
"Not another summer, this is not tourism or quality, is over-exploitation of our resources."