Euro Weekly News - Mallorca 16 – 22 November 2017 Issue 1689

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ISSUE NO. 1689

16 - 22 Nov 2017

MALLORCA

YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION

Ferry horror Fire leaves dozens injured Tributes are pouring in for Mallorca’s emergency services after a major disaster was averted. It comes after a French ferry with 470 passengers and 137 crew members aboard was forced to make an emergency stop in Mallorca after it caught fire at sea. The blaze broke out in the hold of the vessel, named Tariq Ibn Ziyad, while en route from Marseille to Algerian capital Algiers, with a distress call placed and around 35 cars torched, Spanish authorities said. Three people were hospitalised and another 26 treated for smoke inhalation and minor injuries at Alcudia Port after a field hospital was set up. Firefighters managed to extinguish the flames, with passengers and crew placed on

SHAKEN: Families are escorted off the boat (inset). two replacement boats from parent company Algerie Ferries. Mayor of Alcudia, Antoni Mir, said: “It was very difficult for them to enter at first.

Wet and wild THE high winds that battered Mallorca produced waves measuring up to a staggering 11.7 metres in height for the first time since 2001. It comes after gusts of up to 129 km/h were recorded off the Tramuntana Mountains as windows were smashed and yachts floated out to sea after breaking free of their moorings.

“It was a very big operation. There were 15 Civil Protection response teams. “People were scared and needed to be calmed down because they didn’t know

whether their car had been affected. There was a brief outbreak of violence.” Those on board are reported to be mostly French and Algerian.

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Physical graffiti IN an act of graffiti the Spanish flag was painted on the staircase outside a Santa Margalida secondary school. There is suspicion that the IES Santa Margalida was targeted by political activists as it recently held a talk by controversial Mallorcan rapper Valtonyc. He spoke in March after being sentenced to three years in prison for glorifying terrorism and insulting the Spanish royal family. School head Joan Miquel Font said: “acts like this have no positive consequences” and confirmed that he had contacted the Balearic education ministry and Santa Margalida Council.


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