A BRITISH girl of 13 has been left with a broken nose after being punched in the face at a Costa Brava resort for sitting in a sun lounger.
The incident unfolded poolside at Hotel Santa Susanna Resort Affiliated by FERGUS on the Costa Brava on June 24, when the teenager unknowingly occupied a sun lounger being used by another family.
A man from the group immediately attacked her without warning, with his associates piling in to trigger a mass brawl involving dozens of guests.
“He didn’t utter a word, just piled in. It was unbelievable; totally sickening. How could a grown man act like that to anyone, let alone a child,” a witness told The Sun.
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The girl was led away with blood streaming from her nose and taken to hospital, with other guests suffering cuts, black eyes and grazes.
“One girl had a broken nose. She had a big sore mess because of all the blood,” the witness said.
As the brawl escalated, drinks flew and glass tumblers shattered across the poolside, while mothers screamed for children to get out of the pool.
“It resembled a saloon bar brawl, but rather than involving drunks this was middle-class families scrapping in their trunks with families watching on in horror,” the witness said.
Police and an ambulance attended, but officers reportedly declined to confront the group — described by a hotel manager as around 30 people who had also caused trouble at the same property the previous year.
Instead, the teenager and her family were relocated to a different resort. A second guest said police took witness statements from those who had intervened rather than from the attackers.
“The police wanted to take the details of the Brits who broke up the fight. They were too scared to approach the Spanish,” he said.
Other guests said they had barricaded themselves in their rooms since the Wednesday afternoon incident.
“My daughter put a suitcase behind her door last night for fear of the thugs breaking into our room. We’re all too scared to go out,” one guest said.
Several guests had booked through online travel agent Love Holidays.
A spokesperson said the company was ‘investigating with the hotel as a matter of urgency’ and was contacting affected customers.
Four days after being approached for comment, Hotel Santa Susanna — a 214-room all-inclusive property 45 minutes from Barcelona — described the incident as ‘an isolated dispute between two groups of guests’.
It said the emergency services had ‘taken control of the situation and carried out the appropriate procedures’ and that the property was ‘operating as normal’.
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