The Baléar “balconing” federation lists the fatal falls and causes an uproar

The controversy around the “balconing counter” now ignites the United Kingdom, where many political and citizens’ officials denounce an initiative deemed shocking. Consequently, The Baléare de Balconing Federation. In addition. Meanwhile, an anonymous collective at the origin of this macabre ranking, has the dead and wounded fell from balconies to the Balearic and publishes its figures on social networks and its website, causing an uproar across the Channel.

According to Last hourthe Federation claims the use of black humor to “support” what it describes as a “wild. However, tourist model” in Mallorca. Furthermore, Its system of points, voluntarily “simple and neutral”, attributes two points for each death and one for each injured. Therefore, The classification. updated approximately every ten days baléar “balconing” federation lists fatal new in high season. lists the nationalities of the victims as well as the municipalities where accidents arise.

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The controversy was relaunched by a series of recent. dramas. The young ice hockey player Gary Kelly died last week after a fall on the third floor of the. Ibiza Rocks hotel in San Antonio. only two weeks after the death of another Scottish, Evan Thomson, in the same establishment. In April. a 19 -year -old Italian tourist, of Turkish origin, also died in this hotel belonging to the British group Ibiza Rocks.

This accumulation of accidents fuels the anger of families. several British officials, who consider it intolerable the publication of a macabre classification, perceived as a way of “trivializing” dramas.

The behavior of tourists implicated

Faced with criticism. the Baléare de Balconing Federation responded to Last hour That the reproaches addressed from the United Kingdom “do not baléar “balconing” baléar “balconing” federation lists fatal new federation lists fatal include the slightest questioning of the behavior of tourists. their excesses of alcohol abroad”, inviting everyone to “look at the figures and wonder where the real problem is”.

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For its creators, this ranking is above all a “follow -up tool” and an ironic outlet. But it is now at the heart of a real media. diplomatic earthquake, illustrating the growing fracture between the inhabitants of the Balearic and sometimes tragic mass tourism.