EIGHT men have been charged over the gang-rape of a Brit teenager in Magaluf.
The suspects, seven French nationals and a Swiss national, have been charged one year after the horror attack at a hotel on the Spanish island.
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Doug Seeburg – The SunThe teenager is alleged to have been raped at the BH Mallorca resort[/caption]
GettyThe horror attack took place in Magaluf on the island of Majorca[/caption]
At least five of the men took turns to allegedly rape the victim while the other three are claimed to have sexually assaulted her, according to newspaper Diario de Mallorca.
The group stripped the 18-year-old naked, spat on her, insulted her, and whipped the victim, the paper claimed citing court documents.
The suspects are also alleged to have filmed the 30-minute attack on their phones and posted it to social media.
The investigating judge found evidence pointing to one of the suspects filming 14 videos lasting 170 seconds, and another filming five videos lasting 142 seconds, according to Diario de Mallorca.
Other charges were laid against the group include mistreatment and privacy crimes relating to the publication of the mobile phone videos.
The eight men are all being held on remand in prison in Majorca or on the Spanish mainland – and expected to remain behind bars until trial.
Six of the suspects, five Frenchmen and a Swiss national aged 18 to 26, were taken into custody in Majorca shortly after the alleged rape.
Spanish police said the suspects were not all part of the same friend group, but some had joined in “encouraged by other participants”.
Reports at the time said three of the suspects met the British teenager hours earlier while partying in Magaluf
One of the men allegedly went out into a hotel corridor after the attack and invited strangers to have “free sex” with the semi-conscious woman.
Another two were subsequently held in France on a European Arrest Warrant issued by a Spanish judge and extradited.
The first of the suspects was held after Spanish police got him to answer the ‘stolen’ mobile phone of the British teenager.
The French youngster picked up the phone and then went with two holiday pals to the lobby of the hotel where the sex attack allegedly took place unaware they would be met by the teenager and detectives assisting her, Majorcan newspaper Ultima Hora reported in the days after the incident.
The Sun has previously spoken to the staff member who found the girl crying in the lobby of the BH Mallorca Hotel, only 400m from Magaluf‘s party strip.
He said: “I came in for the morning shift and found her downstairs, she was so upset.
“It was awful.”
The hero worker immediately alerted the cops who came within five minutes.
After the incident involving the British teenager, the BH Mallorca Resort said it was cooperating fully with the authorities and offered its support to the unnamed holidaymaker.
A spokesman said in a statement at the time: “The BH Mallorca Resort deeply regrets what has happened and would like to manifest its firm and forceful repudiation of the alleged sexual attack that occurred in the early hours of Monday August 14 at the hotel.
“The hotel also wants to demonstrate its solidarity with the alleged victim of this aggression.
“We are co-operating fully with the Civil Guard and its investigators in everything they consider to be necessary.
“This hotel ratifies through this statement its commitment to the condemnation of all types of sexual attacks that affect peoples’ dignity and physical integrity.
“Behaviour that undermines those rights has no place in this establishment.”
No date for the men’s trial has yet been set.
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