{"id":22668,"date":"2026-05-13T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22668\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:34:10","slug":"mallorcas-drugs-supermarket-gets-behind-spain-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22668\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallorca&#8217;s &#8216;drugs supermarket&#8217; gets behind Spain for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time was when the drugs clans of Palma&#8217;s notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Son+Banya.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Son Banya<\/a> shanty town didn&#8217;t seek to draw unnecessary attention to themselves or to their illegal trade. Everyone knew this was Mallorca&#8217;s &#8216;drugs supermarket&#8217;, but the clans didn&#8217;t go out of their way to advertise it.<\/p>\n<p>This is no longer the case. A new generation in Son Banya has suggested it wants to make the place more &#8216;customer-friendly&#8217;. Meanwhile, the clans revel in goading the police and Palma Town Hall. They put up buildings or create roads. These, obviously enough, don&#8217;t have permission. The town hall periodically moves in and dismantles the illegal structures. No one is ever held responsible for this building, as it is impossible to assign responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>In place of the one-time discretion there are now displays that deliberately draw attention. Last Christmas, for example, a giant inflatable Santa Claus (Papa Noel) appeared. The clans have previously demonstrated their &#8216;patriotism&#8217; by putting up Spanish flags, and one of the sales booths they have put up always has a Spanish theme. With the World Cup just a month away, this booth has been dedicated to support for Spain.<\/p>\n<p>There are images of Spanish players past and present &#8211; Ra\u00fal and Pedri, for instance. It is a further example of the clans thumbing their noses at the authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time was when the drugs clans of Palma&#8217;s notorious Son Banya shanty town didn&#8217;t seek to draw unnecessary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[605,12070,12069,12068,17,12071],"class_list":["post-22668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mallorca-drugs","tag-palma-mallorca","tag-son-banya","tag-spain","tag-spain-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}