Sunbed wars turn violent as British tourists ‘tip Spanish mother off lounger and shove her daughters because the family took their spot by the pool’
- The Spanish family said they are going to press charges against the two Brits who allegedly attacked them
Two British tourists have been accused of violence at a Canary Island hotel as Spain’s sunbed war turns even nastier.
A family of holidaymakers staying at an hotel in Fuerteventura say they intend to file a police report alleging an attack near the establishment’s swimming pool.
They claim the 53-year-old mother of two daughters was tipped out of her sunbed by two Brits who said she had poached their spot.
‘We were afraid,’ said the Spanish family.
Canary newspaper Diario de Avisos says Civil Guard officers attended the un-named hotel to calm the situation down and to split the various parties up.
The anonymous Spanish mother, 53, said the two British tourists rudely tipped them out of her sunbed
Sunbed wars have been in the news over the last few weeks with reports of tourists claiming their sunbeds very early in the morning or even last thing at night, ‘reserving’ them with towels and leaving them empty for hours.
Diario de Avisos says the Spanish family experienced a ‘violent episode’ which brought ‘hammock wars’ to their limit in the Canary hotel.
The events took place on Monday, just after lunch. According to the Spanish man, his wife, 53, and his two daughters, 18 and 22, decided to go to the pool while he took a nap.
The woman, who ‘doesn’t know any English’, sat on an empty sun lounger and suddenly two British men, in their 60s and 30s, ‘started insulting her’ and claimed she was sitting on their sunbed.
The older Brit allegedly overturned her hammock, which fell on her foot, says her husband. She got scared and didn’t understand what was happening, he told Diario de Avisos.
Neither did her daughters who were allegedly pushed. He said other hotel guests who were in the pool at the time immediately criticised the violent attitude of the two men.
‘I went down and two seconds later the Civil Guard arrived, which separated everyone,’ he said.
Details of all parties involved were taken.
The family said they refused to stay in the hotel as they were scared and asked to be moved to a different hotel instead.
They say they will be filing an official complaint when they return to their home in Albacete on the Spanish mainland.
They will also be seeking a medical report on the mother, saying she has suffered ankle and back pain.
The hotel declined to make a comment to the Spanish newspaper.
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