Overview
- Unknown perpetrators sprayed slogans such as “Deutsche raus” and “Ausländische Käufer, fahrt zur Hölle” on buildings in Santanyí and other towns.
- An Instagram video by Mallorca Viral showing four heavily intoxicated German tourists sleeping on a sidewalk in El Arenal has intensified local frustration with party tourism.
- CSU politician Stephan Mayer called the anti-German graffiti “unacceptable” and warned of a widening social divide if harassment continues.
- FDP vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki said Germans could “vote with their feet” by boycotting the island, potentially inflicting major economic losses.
- The Balearic government has introduced higher overnight taxes, behavioral bans, proposed flight caps and reduced beach loungers to curb mass tourism, but critics say enforcement remains weak.