Sick posters encouraging tourists to jump off balconies emerge on the streets of Barcelona after spate of British deaths in Spain this summer
- Anti-tourist posters and graffiti in Barcelona, Spain promoting ‘balconing’
- Practice of climbing between balconies has been linked to several Brit deaths
- Posters encourage tourists to jump from balconies ‘to prevent gentrification’
Anti-tourist graffiti and posters encouraging visitors to jump to their deaths from balconies have been popping up across the Spanish city of Barcelona.
The posters proclaim that ‘balconing IS fun’, stating that it ‘prevents gentrification and improves neighbours’ quality of life’.
‘Balconing’ is the practice of climbing between balconies or, if at a hotel, jumping into a swimming pool from a balcony.
The posters which have appeared in Barcelona, Spain, proclaim that ‘balconing IS fun’, stating that it ‘prevents gentrification and improves neighbours’ quality of life’
A number of Britons have died after falling from balconies or walkways at hotels and holiday apartment complexes in Spain this year.
Some of these deaths have been linked to ‘balconing’, and the posters and graffiti seem to mock the tragedies.
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Last month, an 18-year-old boy died after falling from a walkway at an apartment complex in Magaluf, on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
Thomas Channon, from Rhoose, near Barry in South Wales, was on his first ever holiday with friends to celebrate completing his A levels.
Protests: Anti-tourist graffiti has appeared in several places in Barcelona
The graffiti is encouraging tourists to go ‘balconing’, which means climbing between balconies or jumping into swimming pools from a balcony
In June, Tom Hughes, 20, from Wrexham in North Wales also died at Eden Roc following a fall.
Their deaths prompted an emergency meeting in Magaluf between British diplomats and local authorities to try and curb the number of balcony falls in the party resort.
This is only the latest anti-tourist protest in Barcelona, and comes just weeks after masked activists had to be cut free from a famous sculpture in the city’s iconic Park Guell.
Sick: A Twitter account called ‘Balconing is Fun’ is encouraging the practice
The Twitter account has been posting memes joking about tourists jumping from balconies
Members of the protest group claim mass-tourism is creating misery for Spanish residents, spoiling the countryside, exploiting cheap labour and bringing benefits only to the few.
While some protesters chained themselves to the Gaudi statue, other members of the group put up banners around the park and let off canisters of pink smoke.
Officers had to use bolt-cutters to free those who had tied chains around their legs and sculptures.
A spokesman said they chose the Park Guell and a Gaudi sculpture because of its iconic status.
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