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Updated 21 July 2018, 2:28 PM
By Agence France-Presse
The number of mainly British and Irish drunken tourists who end up at the hospital in the Balearic Islands In Spain after jumping balconies increased this year, a surgeon who studied the dangerous craze warned Friday
. Ireland, in the Spanish Balearic Islands, has raised security concerns regarding a dangerous craze known as "balconies" (AFP / Manila Bulletin)
The so-called "balconnette" infatuation that s & rsquo; Was attenuated in the last two years "Juan Carlos Segura, surgeon at the Hospital Son Espases of Palma de Mallorca, took off again in the Mediterranean archipelago of Magaluf and Ibiza" [19659007] "Balcony" refers to people who throw themselves the balcony of their room in the pools or to go to another balcony, most very drunk or maybe drugged, sometimes crushing on the floor with consequences tragic.
It has become a form of daring challenge during a hedonistic party. Segura said his trauma center had treated at least six cases of "balconies" up here this year by British and Irish tourists and a Frenchman.
Three of them died while the others were very badly injured, some paralyzed.
He marks a significant increase in 2016 and 2017, which according to him saw a total of six cases and no deaths
"It seems that this year will not be like the previous years but that it will resume the initial trend 2010-2015 that saw 10 to 15 cases each summer, "said Segura, author of a study on the trauma of the" balconette ".
figures however only concer n people treated at the Hospital of Son Espases, which means that there were probably more cases in the archipelago.
Just this week, three people have fallen from their balconies in the Balearic Islands – although the police are still investigating these incidents.
'Prime of life & # 39;
On Wednesday, a 14-year-old Irish boy died after falling off a balcony of a Mallorcan hotel where he was staying with his mother, says Civil Guardia Police
There appears "he was playing on the balcony" and fell, said a spokesman for the police
The same day, a man in his early twenties fell off a balcony in his holiday resort on the # 39, Ibiza Island, and is hospitalized in serious condition.
British media have identified him as Tolga Aramaz, a British Labor Counselor in London.
It is not known why he fell
On Friday, the emergency services said that they attended a man al so, in his early twenties, fell of a balcony in Es Pujols on the island of Formentera
The police and the Spanish government office in the Balearic Islands have not been able to give the total number of cases of "balconies" this year. ] Segura, who sees as a surgeon "a lot of dramatic cases due to diseases like cancer with elderly people," said the wounds caused by "swinging" were particularly painful.
"It's really shocking to see a young person who has absolutely no problems, who was in the prime of life, who had thousands of projects coming up, a life in live, to die suddenly or be totally unable to do anything for the rest of his life. "
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