By Daily Mail (World News) | Created at 2024-10-31 17:40:22 | Updated at 2024-11-06 19:32:31
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This is the horrifying moment an undercover reporter who pretended to be drunk was forced to escape after a group of local men said they would 'go for it' when they saw her alone on Magaluf beach in the early hours of the morning.
Journalist Ellie Flynn went undercover for the new film 'Magaluf Undercover: Predators and Parties' to expose the 'predatory underbelly' of the Majorcan tourist hotspot.
One particularly disturbing scene captured the moment local men shamelessly approached Ellie and preyed on her as she pretended to be passed out on a sun-lounger.
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 asks Ellie as he leans over 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
The reporter proceeds to tell him she is fine, but instead of leaving her to it, he asks her if she wants 'to talk a little bit'.
The interaction takes a dark turn when Ellie shakes her head no, to which the man responds: 'You are my last chance. Do you want to kiss a little bit?'.
Ellie tells him no again, and the man appears to leave.
He proceeds to go up to another man and lets him know that 'she's completely wasted', to which his friend responds: 'Let's go for it! Let's go for it'.
The friend now approaches Ellie himself, who continues to pretend that she is intoxicated.
'If you want, I can keep you company', he tells Ellie as he sits down next to her on the lounger. 'Where are you from?', he asks.
In this moment, however, the journalist is forced to stand up, explaining in her narration of the film how she felt 'genuinely scared', despite having a camera crew and security watching her.
She can be seen signalling for help, and a female security guard comes to her rescue. 'Sorry, that just scared me...I didn't see him coming', a now relieved Ellie tells her.
In a piece written in The Sun about the horrific encounter, the documentary maker explained: '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 also described how she felt like she had 'experienced an orchestrated attempt to target drunk women alone on a night out in Magaluf'.
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
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.
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', 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 an 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 in, 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.
