The police had also been contacted to report a fight in the bar. After forcing the door open, they took statements and established that four men armed with baseball bats and iron bars had arrived in a Ford Fiesta, had attacked the people inside the bar, stolen valuables and locked them in before leaving.
The armed men had turned up while there was an illegal after-hours party in the bar on C. Robert Graves. The assaults were because of an alleged unpaid debt.
Witnesses suggested to police that the incident was related to another that had occurred in Plaça Gomila on Saturday. There was an altercation to do with a bike that had been stolen two weeks previously.
The National Police are in charge of investigating the matter further, while Palma Police have reported the after-hours party and filed a request for a review of the bar's licence.
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This is the kinda stuff you hear about in bad part´s of place´s with thriving DRUG TRADE and large criminal Gangs Sadly Mallorca has become also one of these place´s people arriving at a bar with baseball bat´s and iron Bars real Mafia style techniques being used these are not your average I phone theif we heard about rings of steel and cranking up on Gang´s , guess there are some hole´s in that ring , Gomilla has always been hard core area with high prostitution and Drugs readily available it could be classified as a Dodgy area , difficult issues to solve as police reduction´s occur at this time of year and Criminal activity increases .
There have always been a lot of dodgy 'after hours' bars in the Gomila area.
The reports coming out of MDB that involve violence against persons are shocking and greatly alarming. If you didn't know that these incidents are in the small minority you'd be scared to set foot on the island. Even so, just one violent attack or robbery is one too many and clearly something must be done.
Seems like law and order spiralling out of control in Majorca. Best the authorities get it sorted pronto or there really will be lots fewer tourists next year!