Two Brits are arrested after 'fleeing cruise ship on Ibiza without settling £2,700 room service bill'
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Police have arrested two British holidaymakers in Ibiza accused of fleeing from their cruise liner after trying to dodge a four-figure room service bill.
The pair, both in their twenties, were held on suspicion of fraud at Ibiza Airport on Wednesday after leaving the ship 'in a hurry' when it docked on the holiday island.
A spokesman for the National Police in Ibiza revealed yesterday they had been accused of attempting to wriggle out of paying a bill totalling £2,685
The force said: 'On Wednesday Spanish National Police officers arrested a man aged 23 and a woman aged 18 who are both British as the suspected authors of a crime of fraud for refusing to pay several consumptions during their stay on board a cruiser liner.
'The couple tried to leave the cruise liner in a hurry with their luggage, declining to pay the cost of expenditure linked to their holiday, around 3pm on May 21.
'The bill for various items, linked to their room, came to [£ 2,685).
'Police called to the scene interviewed crew members who told them the alleged offenders had tried to push their way off the ship in their attempts to abandon the vessel.
'The couple were tracked down in the island airport after detectives launched an operation to find them.
'They were held at 6pm on May 21 as they tried to leave Ibiza.'
It was not immediately clear this afternoon if they have already appeared in court.
The cruise company they were travelling with has not been named by police.
The arrest of the two Brits on Ibiza comes after a local last week pleaded for her island to stop letting in 'wild animals' as she endured a raucous flight from Luton to the Spanish isle.
Erika Barrachina posted footage of rowdy tourists, insisting they should not have been allowed on the plane in the first place.
'My flight from London to Ibiza was absolutely horrible,' she captioned her post, showing tourists banging and chanting on board the two and a half hour flight.
'I was scared. A plane full of real English animals.'
'Everyone standing, screaming, guys hitting each other, drinking bottles of alcohol one after the other and stopping the flight attendants from doing their job. Real hell.'
Passengers could be seen on board banging on luggage compartments above them and yelling: 'Come on Ibiza.'
She alleged that she had seen passengers drinking before the flight took off, insisting 'this shouldn't be allowed'.
'They shouldn't let rabble like this get on a plane or sell alcohol on board. We don't want this type of tourism in Ibiza, they should stay at home,' she told Diario de Ibiza.
Erika, who posts online as Kiribarrachi, told local media she had complained to the flight attendants.
She claimed the two male air stewards and an air stewardess on board had asked some passengers for their documentation but were met with shouts of 'F*** off.'
'I had a very bad time and the flight attendants unable to do anything because how do you control these wild animals inside a plane. There has to be a solution.'
'I'm not afraid of flying because I've flown around the world but I had a panic attack because it was like being in a pub, in a nightclub, but in the air,' she added.
'This video is the just the end because I couldn't film what happened during the journey,' she said.
She said they were let off the plane after reaching Ibiza airport and identifying themselves.
easyJet told MailOnline the flight 'was met by police on arrival due to a group of passengers behaving in a disruptive manner'.
Erika posted the footage last Saturday, a day before thousands of people marched in Canary Islands capitals as part of a new anti-mass tourism protest.
Locals in the Balearic Islands, which include Ibiza, are due to stage their protest on June 15.
Demonstrations across Spain continue to gather pace as locals decry what they call 'overtourism' - the catering of local industry to foreign visitors, affecting jobs and house prices, and the arrival of noisy, drunken tourists.
While the Spanish government has introduced a rent cap mechanism, only few regional governments - like that in Barcelona, where it led to slightly reduced rents - have applied it.
Government measures have not proven enough to stop protests over the past two years and experts say the situation likely won't improve soon, with more demonstrations expected in the coming months.
