2 Aug, 2017 @ 13:35
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Catalan anti-tourist campaigners target Mallorca restaurant popular with holidaymakers

Tourist protest

ANTI-tourism activists have published a video of themselves targeting a Mallorca restaurant popular with holidaymakers.

The group, Arran Paisos Catalans, invaded the restaurant in Palmaโ€™s Moll Vell before letting off flares and unveiling anti-tourism banners, one reading โ€˜Tourism Kills Mallorcaโ€™.

Around 20 campaigners, some wearing masks, rushed into the joint Mar de Nudos, with one woman seen showering diners in confetti.

A spokesperson for the group, the youth wing of the radical CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy), said the campaign aimed โ€˜to raise awareness about elite tourismโ€™.

A message accompanying the video, filmed on July 22, said the group wants to โ€˜paralyse the massive tourism that destroys Mallorca and that condemns the working class of the Catalan people to miseryโ€™.

Restaurant owner Carmen Sรกnchez said her customers, many of them foreign tourists, were โ€˜very troubledโ€™ by the protest.

The group has previously filmed itself vandalising tourist buses and bicycles in Barcelona.

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  1. Too many people on planet Earth! Anthropologist call these social movements “revitalization movements”. When population density increases, many people want to “go back” to a time when life was “better”. Brexit, Trump, ISIS, migrations, and wars are all symptoms of an increasingly crowded planet..

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