WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As members of the Magaluf ‘wolf pack’ rapists are sentenced, the Mirror takes a look at the 30 minutes of cruelty they subjected the survivor to
In the summer of 2023, eight young men carried out a shocking attack on a young woman, which would cast a dark shadow over one of Spain’s most popular holiday hotspots.
The perpetrators, who came from different groups and weren’t all known to each other, carried out a brutal gang rape against an 18-year-old girl at Magaluf’s BH Mallorca Resort, in a crime shocking in the lengths they went to “humiliate and violate” the young woman. Complete strangers at the hotel were even invited to join the “wolf pack” in the horror hotel room, as they subjected their victim to unspeakable degradation.
Reports at the time suggest that three of the men had met the teenager hours before targeting her while out in the lively Spanish resort. It was mid-August, and young people were out in force to enjoy Magaluf’s famous strip, situated just 400 yards away from the hotel. It was then that the nightmare began.
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Degrading attack
The attack occurred at dawn, just as revellers were returning from dancing on the nearby Magaluf strip. And the details of what the young woman endured during the 30-minute ordeal make for sickening reading. French tourists Khalil Abderrahmen Mejbri and Romain Charles Michel Galatioto “orally penetrated” the teenager, who “fell into a state of unconsciousness” during the horror attack. Galatioto did so seven times while the girl was stripped naked, aside from her bra. French national Anthony Guy Gerard Wengler and Swiss national Haiaiel Ngandjeu Sjamen Tchatchou raped the survivor “at least once”, as did Thomas Eric Coretin Wisniewski, also from France.
In yet further acts of degradation, Tchatchou and Wengler spat at the victim and whipped her alongside Mejbri after Frenchman Satilmis Sahan slapped her. Meanwhile, French national Anthony Auque, who had been holidaying with Wengler, and fellow Frenchman Mouhamadou Wade, looked on in room 108 as the rape unfolded, surrounding the victim and chanting sick words of encouragement to the men violating her.
The indictment describes how the woman was surrounded by the “libidinous” gang as they yelled insults at her, shouting, “There’s four of us and there’s a cow”. Gang members also “laughed out loudly”, showing no empathy whatsoever for the teenager they had targeted.
Horrifyingly, even after the attack, one of the perpetrators still wasn’t done with violating the survivor in the worst way imaginable. Displaying callousness beyond belief, they headed out into a hotel corridor, where they encouraged strangers returning from the nightclubs to have ‘free sex’ with her. Earlier this week, an insider shared, “It was almost a case of them opening the door and inviting others passing by in the corridor to join them.”
Depraved footage
In a final act of cruelty, all eight men, aged between 18 and 26 at the time of the incident, refused to cooperate with officers, attempting to maintain their silence throughout police interviews and, later on, during court appearances. However, distressing videos shed light on what went on in that hotel room, with some gang members even bragging about their disgusting acts via Snapchat. These videos ultimately proved crucial in their arrests and subsequent prosecution
All eight men confessed to filming the gang rape in room 108, with two posting recordings of the “semi-unconscious or unconscious” victim via Snapchat, along with vile boasts. One suspect was accused of filming 14 videos totalling 170 seconds in length, and another of filming five videos totalling 142 seconds.
The plea agreement, which was signed by all perpetrators, read: “Each one of the defendants, with their mobile phones, during the incidents previously described, recorded several videos in which they honed in on their victim’s private parts and in which they appeared obliging her to carry out sexual acts or performing acts of an identical nature upon her as aforementioned.”
It added: “Boasting about the actions taken and with the clear intention of humiliating and violating his victim, Mejbri and Wade sent and shared the content of their recordings through the Snapchat app. Those recordings were taken during the time in which their victim was semi-conscious or unconscious, so that she was unable to consent to it.”
Hero security guard
At around 5 am, a hotel security guard, clocking on for his early shift, made a dismaying discovery. The teenager was sobbing on the floor of the hotel lobby, and it soon became apparent that something terrible had occurred. Speaking with The Sun, the guard recalled: “I came in for the morning shift and found her downstairs, she was so upset. It was awful.” As told to the publication, police officers thankfully arrived swiftly at the hotel after the heroic guard alerted them. Praising the way the deeply distressing case was handled, he continued: ‘They dealt with it very well. The police came within five minutes and quickly helped her.”
It’s reported that the survivor received immediate medical attention and counselling, which revealed the physical and psychological toll the attack had taken. There were bruises across the victim’s arm, believed to have been caused when she was held down, and she was also found to have sustained a cut to her chest.
Sentencing
Both Mejbri and Wisniewski have been handed a nine-year prison sentence for a crime of “sexual assault with carnal access”, a severe form of sexual crime. Wengler, Tchatchou and Galatioto were given 11-year sentences after admitting the same offence. Sahan confessed to carrying out a crime of “sexual assault without penetration”, for which he received a four-year sentence.
All eight men, including the five self-confessed sexual offenders plus Auque and Wade, who admitted to filming their victims being targeted, were given two-year, three-month prison sentences. Sahan, Auque and Wade had already been granted bail ahead of the scheduled start of the trial and remain on bail. The convicted men were also ordered to compensate the survivor with more than €100,000 (£86,000).
At least two of the men are unlikely to be returned to prison because of time served on remand before being granted bail around nine months ago. Meanwhile, five others remain behind bars pending a further court hearing next month, at which their defence lawyers are set to ask a judge to agree to their release from Spain once they have served part of their jail time.
An insider stated, “If they hadn’t put their hands up to wrongdoing as part of plea bargain deals and decided to go to a full trial, many of these men could have spent the rest of their lives in prison. Some have never agreed to answer questions or give statements. These men appear on the surface to be regular young guys who don’t come from broken families and have never tried to allege they were acting out of character by trying to link what they did to the abuse of alcohol or drugs. It’s such a shocking case.”
The victim was not required to give evidence beyond the witness statement she had already made under oath to investigators.
If you’ve been the victim of sexual assault, you can access help and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk or calling the national telephone helpline on 0808 802 9999
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