Dutch tourists at the courts in Palma Mallorca

Some of the nine outside the courts in Palma. | Jaume Morey

Andrew EdePalma07/08/2024 09:49
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A group of Dutch tourists who somehow managed to smash a large hole in the wall between two rooms at a hotel in Arenal had their passports withdrawn until they had paid for the damage.

The National Police reports having arrested nine Dutch tourists, a group of friends aged between 18 and 20, at Palma Son Sant Joan Airport last Sunday.

They had left the Mll Palma Bay Club Resort without checking out. Cleaners went to two of the three rooms in which they had been staying and discovered a hole in the wall between rooms 1603 and 1604. In the third room, 1611, the cleaners came across a television screen that had been smashed.

The hotel management contacted the National Police. Officers at the airport were alerted, and the nine were arrested before they could get on a flight back to the Netherlands.

They appeared in court on Monday, exercised their right not to testify and were released with preventive measures - the withdrawal of the passports. The cost of the damage they had to pay for was put at 2,070 euros.