Magaluf: Men suspected of gang-raping British teen were not all friends

Eight men suspected of gang-raping an 18-year-old British pistillate successful Majorca were not each known to each other, Spanish constabulary person said.

Five French and 1 Swiss tourer were arrested connected suspicion of intersexual battle and usurpation of the close to privateness earlier this month.

Two much men, some residents successful France, were arrested successful that state this week and are awaiting extradition.

"Of the 8 [suspects], immoderate knew each other, they weren't each strangers," said a spokesperson for the civilian guard. "But it was not 1 radical of friends."

The alleged unfortunate is thought to person met a radical of young tourists successful the aboriginal hours of 14 August.

She is believed to person followed them to their hotel, wherever she was forced to person intersexual intercourse and was filmed by the alleged aggressors.

The pistillate aboriginal escaped and was helped by edifice unit aft being recovered successful the street.

She was taken to Son Espases infirmary successful Palma de Mallorca, wherever she was treated earlier registering her rape complaint.

Police arrested the archetypal six suspects wrong hours of the alleged onslaught and they are successful preventive custody.

The brace arrested this week flew from Spain to Baden-Baden successful Germany, past travelled to France.

A Spanish justice issued a European detention bid and 1 of them was held successful Scherwiller and the different astatine the airdrome of Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, some successful the north-eastern Alsace region, the civilian defender reported.

With the 2 arrests successful France, the Spanish civilian defender said it has closed its probe into this case.

The unit said that "the swift and businesslike enactment of this team" successful tandem with section constabulary "has permitted the apprehension of each those liable for this brutal attack".