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25 - 31 July 2019
A 19-YEAR-OLD woman from Mar del Plata died after swallowing an ecstasy tablet believed to laced with rat poison at an electronic music festival in the resort. The victim has been named by local authorities as Milagros Alanis Moyano. She was attending the Origen Festival in the Son Fusteret area of the resort with her twin sister Lourdes. According to local media sources she was taken ill on Sunday, July 14, on the night of the festival and was rushed to the Hospital Son Espases on the island. Two days later she was transferred to a clinic hospital in Barcelona with hyperthermia and a temperature of 43 degrees Celcius. She passed away the following Wednesday afternoon. The father of Alanis, Paulo Moyano who travelled with his daughter from the island to Barcelona, told of his anger and hurt surrounding the circumstances of her death. “I would like to know who sold the
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TRAGEDY: 19-year-old woman dies after taking contaminated ecstasy tablet at Origen Festival in Mallorca.
€2,000 million investment OVER the past seven years the form of investment in Mallorca has changed dramatically with British, French, and American firms investing €2,000 million in total. The investments have been made by these firms through buying or investing in 80 boutique hotels in the Balearic Islands, with the majority being
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purchased in Mallorca. This huge investment into the hotel sector is a big jump from the previous years when most money from foreign investment was spent in the real estate industry in the form of warehouses, retail spaces and office buildings. Due to the high levels of tourism, especially British,
Scandinavian and German tourists, the high margins for the hotels are a huge lure for the foreign investors. This is the opinion of financial advisors and hotel chains that are behind this surge in investment and one that is encouraging for a market that has reportedly been plagued by whispers of an imminent crash.
poison,” he said. “I’m not looking for anything special, just to make sense of the death of my baby, and it hurts me a lot as they judge us, and they say very hard things.” An investigation is underway by National Police on the island to find out who supplied the drug. The drug-dealer is reported to be a slim, young man who frequents this square to sell drugs. Neighbours in the area have made complaints about the drug-dealers that hang around the area on numerous occasions. “We hope that the person who sold the pill to my sister will pay for this,” said her sister this week.
Brit arrested over alleged rape A BRITISH man has been arrested on suspicion of rape in the popular party resort of Magaluf. The alleged incident occurred at a hotel in the Punta Ballena area close to the party strip last Friday. According to local reports the pair tried to return to the hotel where the woman was staying but was turned away by reception. They then went back to the hostel where the man was staying and he reportedly forced her to have sex.