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The Spanish police on Tuesday were investigating vandalism targeting rental cars on the holiday island of Majorca by a far-left group which regularly stages summer protests against mass tourism.
Arran, a far-left youth group, posted a video on social media showing two masked activists smashing windshields of rental cars with a hammer at night in Palma, the capital of the island, as well as spray painting the vehicles and puncturing their tires. This anti-tourism group, which in recent years has carried out similar protests in the Balearic Islands as well as Barcelona and Valencia, argues rental vehicles are polluting and a symbol of the “saturation” of the island with visitors.
The police opened an investigation after receiving a complaint from a car rental company, a spokesman for the Balearic Islands police told.
Only one complaint has been filed so far but police are “investigating to see if there are any other people affected,” the spokesman added.
In the video posted by Arran at least two cars are shown to be damaged. The group campaigns for the independence of the “Catalan Countries” encompassing several Catalan-speaking regions of Spain and France, including the Balearic Islands.
Mallorca is the largest of the Mediterranean Balearic Islands, which received just under 14 million visitors last year, mainly from Germany and Britain.
Tags: Europe, mallorca, over tourism, spain
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