This is the horrifying moment a man in Magaluf tells a young female undercover reporter that ‘being 15 doesn’t count on holiday’ and jokes about wanting to inspect her hymen.
Journalists Ellie Flynn and Emily Birtley wore hidden cameras for the new Channel 4 film ‘Magaluf Undercover: Predators and Parties’ to expose the predatory underbelly of the Majorcan tourist hotspot.
They both spent time on the infamous Punta Ballena ‘party strip’ where they pretended to be drunk to see whether men would attempt to take advantage of their state.
In one particularly unsettling scene, they were filmed speaking to a pair of men outside a hotel bar when Emily, who is really in her twenties, said she was just 15 years old and on her first holiday with friends.
One of the men began hitting on Emily, prompting his friend to call him a ‘nonce’.
He immediately retorted: ‘It’s okay bro, we’re on holiday, it doesn’t count… doesn’t matter if she’s 15, it doesn’t count.’
The girls played along, clearly hoping he was joking, but the man then made an outrageous statement. ‘If she’s got a full hymen I’ll know…’ he said.
He initially tried to play it off, laughing when the journalists, clearly taken aback, pressed him on it.
But moments later he doubled down: ‘I said, I want to see if she’s got a fully developed hymen or not!’
Journalists Ellie Flynn and Emily Birtley went wore hidden cameras for the new Channel 4 film ‘Magaluf Undercover: Predators and Parties’ to expose the predatory underbelly of the Majorcan tourist hotspot
One man began hitting on Emily, prompting his friend to call him a ‘nonce’. He immediately retorted: ‘It’s okay bro, we’re on holiday, it doesn’t count… doesn’t matter if she’s 15, it doesn’t count.’
The girls played along, clearly hoping he was joking, but the man then made an outrageous statement. ‘If she’s got a full hymen I’ll know…’ he said
The documentary exposed the predatory behaviour women are subjected to in Magaluf
The skin-crawling incident was just one of many that unfold in the documentary as Ellie and Emily find themselves repeatedly being approached by men wanting to take advantage of them.
Another disturbing scene captured the moment local men shamelessly preyed on Ellie as she pretended to be passed out on a sun-lounger, forcing her to call in security to escape.
In the clip, a man can be seen walking over to the British reporter, who buries her face in her hands in an attempt to seem drunk.
‘Hey, are you good? Sorry, are you good?’, he asked Ellie as he leaned over her.
The reporter proceeded to tell him she was fine, but instead of leaving her to it, he asked her if she wanted ‘to talk a little bit’.
The interaction takes a dark turn when Ellie shook her head no, to which the man responded: ‘You are my last chance. Do you want to kiss a little bit?’.
Ellie told him no again, and the man momentarily walked off – only to tell his friend that ‘she’s completely wasted’, to which his friend responded: ‘Let’s go for it! Let’s go for it.’
‘If you want, I can keep you company’, the friend said after approaching Ellie and sitting next to her on the lounger. ‘Where are you from?’, he asked.
Ellie then stood up, explaining in her narration of the film how she felt ‘genuinely scared’, despite having a camera crew and security watching her.
Journalist Ellie Flynn went undercover for the new film ‘Magaluf Undercover: Predators and Parties’ to expose the ‘predatory underbelly’ of the Majorcan tourist hotspot – in which she pretended to be a drunk reveller alone on a beach
Shocking footage showed how a group of men shamelessly preyed on Ellie and tried to take advantage of her
Pictured: Ellie Flynn, the undercover reporter who filmed her experiences in Magaluf
She was seen signalling for help, and a female security guard rushed to her rescue and pulled her away.
‘Sorry, that just scared me…I didn’t see him coming’, a relieved Ellie declared.
‘I had seen the first two together, but the sudden appearance of another and having no idea at the time if they were together – was enough for me to signal security to get me out’.
Ellie went on to describe how she felt like she had ‘experienced an orchestrated attempt to target drunk women alone on a night out in Magaluf’.
But her frightening encounter with the three men on the beach was not an isolated event.
Over the course of three days, Ellie – who was accompanied by a film crew while she disguised herself as a drunken reveller – secretly filmed in clubs, on the strip and on Magaluf beach after dark.
The crew documented the several sinister instances in which Ellie was followed and harassed by men.
The documentary also revealed that 48 cases of rape were reported to the police in Magaluf in 2023 alone.
Things take a dark turn when a man asks a seemingly intoxicated Ellie: ‘Do you want to kiss a little bit?’
The man that first approached Ellie goes up to his friend and informs him she is drunk. ‘Let’s go for it!’, his friend responds, before he approaches Ellie himself
The second man approaches Ellie and sits next to her on the lounger – a moment that she later said left her feeling frightened
Ellie is then forced to signal for help from a female security guard who was on standby
Ellie said she noticed a ‘pattern’ in the behaviour of some men in the party destination.
One night, Ellie said she was watched for ten minutes by a group of men as she slumped outside a fast food shop before one of them told her he had a car.
‘Why would this man, who has been watching me for several minutes and can see that I am seemingly drunk, be trying to get me into a vehicle’, she wrote in The Sun.
‘He repeatedly asked why I was alone, where my mates were and suggested he could help me – all while telling me that I’m beautiful, and standing much closer than I was comfortable with’.
But it is not just Channel 4’s upcoming documentary that details the trend of women being preyed on in Magaluf.
Over the summer several instances of rape were reported at the tourist hotspot.
One female British tourist was allegedly raped by a man twice her age who intercepted her as she returned to her holiday apartment from a boozy night out with friends in Magaluf.
Another British woman was raped and robbed on a beach after she became separated from friends in the resort’s Punta Ballena party strip.
The suspect was said to have picked her up and carried her to the beach where he allegedly raped her before stealing her mobile phone.
The Majorcan region of Calvia, where Magaluf is situated, has the highest number of reported sexual assaults per inhabitant in the whole of Spain.
The party resort on the Spanish island of Majorca is famed for its drink-fueled culture, which is often perpetrated by foreign tourists – in particular British and German.
- UNTOLD: Magaluf Undercover – Predators & Parties is available to stream on Channel 4 and YouTube from Friday 1 November
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
