{"id":61558,"date":"2026-07-27T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/61558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:50:24","slug":"spain-tourist-protests-turn-violent-as-armed-police-clash-with-anti-british-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/61558\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain tourist protests turn violent as armed police clash with anti-British demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tourist protests descended into violence in Spain last night as armed police clashed with unruly demonstrators.<\/p>\n

More than 25,000 protesters took to the streets of Majorca<\/a>, arguing the island cannot “cope” with more holidaymakers.<\/p>\n

Police officers struck those in the crowd with batons, while angry protesters were seen leaping over barriers, forcing police to hit them back in response.<\/p>\n

Authorities used rubber bullets to disperse the crowd after rioters threw bottles at police.<\/p>\n

Seven people were injured in the chaos, two seriously.<\/p>\n

One protester sustained a large gash in his head as a result of the clashes, pictures from the scene revealed.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators were pictured holding signs which read “tourists go home”, “save Majorca”, and “less tourism, more life”.<\/p>\n

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Raging locals warned they were ‘forced to live in struggle’ and unfurled banners showing images of water pistols<\/p>\n

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Police were seen carrying riot shields against crowds into the night as chaos spiralled<\/p>\n

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Grassroots campaign group Menys Turisme, Mes Vida<\/a>, which translates to Less Tourism, More Life, organised the protest – the first in a series of planned demonstrations ahead of the total solar eclipse on August 12.<\/p>\n

The group has now published a “Manual for Action Against Touristification” – a guide which tells supporters how to identify possible targets of “non-violent direct action” against a “system that is suffocating us”.<\/p>\n

Tourism signage, estate agents and hotels are all named as potential places to act against.<\/p>\n

Protesters are told to block key-holder boxes for holiday rentals, plan out escape routes, and to cover up distinguishable features, according to the Majorca Daily Bulletin.<\/p>\n

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Police were seen swinging batons at anti-tourism protesters to dispers crowds<\/p>\n

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Authorities used rubber bullets to disperse the crowd after rioters threw bottles at police<\/p>\n

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PICTURED: Demonstrators care for a man injured in the protest<\/p>\n

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Tourism bodies in the Balearics have condemned the guide.<\/p>\n

The Majorca Hoteliers Foundation, the College of Estate Agents and the Confederation of Balearic Business Associations (CAEB) have all hit out against the document.<\/p>\n

The hotel federation said: “There are many ways to defend an idea, but not all ways of doing so are valid.”<\/p>\n

Jose Miguel Artieda Mean, the president of the College of Estate Agents, said: “This does not contribute to public debate; it fuels a climate of confrontation that benefits no one.”<\/p>\n

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Thousands of protesters took to the streets to call for an end to tourism in Majorca<\/p>\n

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The manual follows the targeting of international estate agents in Majorca with graffiti.<\/p>\n

Two agencies were tagged with messages which included “guilty”, “speculators out”, and “get lost”.<\/p>\n

It marks the third year of summer protests against tourism led by Menys Turisme, Mes Vida.<\/p>\n

The organisation previously told GB News British holidaymakers should “expect a hostile atmosphere” this summer and claimed tourism “destroys everything that existed before it”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourist protests descended into violence in Spain last night as armed police clashed with unruly demonstrators. More than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[273,8790,17,394],"class_list":["post-61558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-spain","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61558","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=61558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}