A British documentary filmmaker who posed as drunk to expose the dangers women face in Magaluf has described the moment three men agreed to ‘go for it’ when they found her slumped on a beach lounger.
Journalist Ellie Flynn went undercover for the new film ‘Magaluf Undercover: Predators and Parties’ to expose the ‘predatory underbelly’ of the Mallorca tourist hotspot.
One particularly disturbing scene captured the moment two local men approached Ellie in the early hours of the morning as she pretended to pass out on a sun lounger on the beach.
Despite her apparent condition, cameras showed a man blatantly preying on Ellie and trying to take advantage of her.
Although the filmmaker led him away, he was caught approaching a third man and telling him in Spanish: ‘She’s totally drunk…Let’s go for it!’, before returning to the lounger where Ellie lay.
Journalist Ellie Flynn went undercover for a new Channel 4 documentary documenting the dangers women face on holiday in party destination Magaluf
Several female revelers are vulnerable to the predatory behavior of some men in Magaluf, the documentary reveals
A woman sleeps on the street during a night out in Magaluf
“If you want, I can keep you company,” he told her — a moment that she said left her “upset and scared.”
To write The sun, the documentary maker said: ‘I had seen the first two together, but the sudden appearance of another and then having no idea if they were together was enough for me to alert security to get me out’.
Ellie also described how she felt like she had witnessed ‘an orchestrated attempt to attack single drunk women on a night out in Magaluf’.
But her terrifying encounter with the three men on the beach was not an isolated incident.
For three days, Ellie – who was accompanied by a film crew while disguised as a drunken reveler – secretly filmed in clubs, on the strip and on the beach of Magaluf after dark.
The crew documented the various sinister instances of Ellie being followed and harassed by men.
Ellie said she noticed a “pattern” in the behavior of some men at the party destination.
One night, Ellie said she was watched by a group of men for ten minutes as she collapsed outside a fast food store, before one of them told her he had a car.
“Why would this man, who has been watching me for several minutes and can see that I am apparently drunk, try to get me into a car,” she wrote in The Sun.
The Channel 4 documentary, out on Wednesday, details the sinister and predatory dangers drunken, vulnerable female tourists often encounter in Magaluf.
‘He repeatedly asked why I was alone, where my friends were and suggested he could help me – telling me I was ‘beautiful and much closer than I felt comfortable with.
But it’s not just Channel 4’s upcoming documentary that details the trend of women being preyed upon in Magaluf.
Several cases of rape were reported in the tourist hotspot during the summer.
A female British tourist was allegedly raped by a man twice her age. He was intercepted as she returned to her holiday apartment after a drunken night out with friends in Magaluf.
Another British woman was raped and robbed on a beach after becoming separated from friends in the resort’s Punta Ballena entertainment district.
The suspect allegedly picked her up and carried her to the beach, where he raped her before stealing her cell phone.
In April last year, an Italian man was arrested on suspicion of raping a 38-year-old British woman on a beach near Magaluf after luring her from a nearby bar.
The 20-year-old was detained after the victim complained that he had forced himself on her after a night out in Palmanova, which borders the famous party resort.
The Mallorcan region of Calvia, where Magaluf is located, has the highest number of reported sexual crimes per inhabitant in all of Spain.
The party resort on the Spanish island of Mallorca is known for its drinking culture, which is often enjoyed by foreign tourists, especially British and German.
Over the summer, images emerged showing shocking scenes of unconscious Britons collapsing on sidewalks and in kebab shops.
One image showed a woman lying on the street with a concerned friend sitting next to her.
Another photo showed a woman apparently left in a takeaway restaurant where she had fallen asleep.
The documentary, which airs on Channel 4 on Wednesday, details the sinister and predatory dangers drunken, vulnerable female tourists often encounter in Magaluf.