British boy, 17, 'is raped in toilets at Magaluf restaurant' (2024)

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A Swiss tourist has been arrested on suspicion of raping a British teenager at a Magaluf restaurant.

The 17-year-old male holidaymaker told police his alleged aggressor had followed him to the toilets and forced himself on him after they shared drinks together following the end of a dinner show at the eatery.

The British teenager had gone out with friends but ended up partying with the Swiss national after they were put on the same table for the show despite not knowing each other.

He alerted security staff after leaving the toilets and gave them a description of the suspect before they detained him at the restaurant exit and handed him over to police when they arrived.

The British youngster was taken to hospital for a routine examination before making a full statement.

The restaurant has not been named. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday.

The Swiss suspect, whose age is not known, was hauled to court later the same day but released on bail instead of being remanded in custody.

It was not immediately clear today whether he has been allowed to leave Majorca pending an ongoing criminal investigation. He declined to answer questions from a judge.

Yesterday afternoon police in Majorca confirmed they were still hunting a Senegalese man suspected of raping and robbing a British tourist on a Magaluf beach.

He allegedly discovered her lying drunk and alone in the resort's brash Punta Ballena strip after she became separated from friends and carried her to the beach where he forced himself on her before stealing her phone.

The sex attack happened around 4am on July 24 but was only made public yesterday.

He has been described locally as a street seller.

Police sources said he had been identified and they were hopeful of making an arrest in the next few days.

On Sunday it emerged another British tourist has been assisted by police after claiming she was raped and robbed at a different beach in Majorca.

The 30-year-old told detectives she agreed to go to the beach near the island capital Palma with a man she met and ended up agreeing to have sex with before a second man appeared on the scene and forced himself on her in the early hours of last Thursday morning.

They then fled with her belongings according to the holidaymaker.

Local reports said she had accepted an offer of 'free drugs' by the man she met as she strolled around Palma before heading to the beach with him.

She was taken to hospital for a routine medical exploration and was said to have been 'visibly affected' and in a 'state of shock' before flying back to London.

In April last year an Italian man was arrested on suspicion of raping a 38-year-old British woman on a beach near Magaluf after luring her from a nearby bar.

The 20-year-old was held after the victim complained he had forced himself on her after a night out in Palmanova which borders the famous party resort.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Majorca said at the time: 'The Civil Guard in Calvia has arrested an Italian man aged 20 as the suspected author of a crime of sexual assault on a woman aged 38.

'Last week, the alleged victim and suspect coincided in a late-night bar in Palmanova.

'When the bar closed, the suspect allegedly took advantage of the woman's state of disorientation because of the amount of alcohol she had drunk, to take her to the beach and rape her.

'Officers began an investigation and managed to identify and locate the alleged offender.'

Court officials could not be reached this morning for comment regarding the investigation a judge launched at the time.

A British 18-year-old was allegedly gang-raped at a hotel in Magaluf in the early hours of August 14 last year.

Five French nationals and a Swiss man were arrested and remanded in jail pending an ongoing judicial investigation and a further two suspects subsequently held in France on European Arrest Warrants.