British student hordes cause outrage on five-day drink rampage through resort
By Arthur Martin
Last updated at 12:42 PM on 01st April 2010
It is billed as a student festival aimed at encouraging teamwork and professionalism in a variety of sports.
But when 5,000 British university students arrived in the Spanish resort of Salou, most had only one goal -- to get blind drunk.
Hundreds of both sexes went on the rampage in fancy dress or in their underwear, exposing themselves in restaurants and on the streets of the town 70 miles south of Barcelona.
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They encouraged each other to down free shots of strong spirits handed out alongside cheap beer.
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During scenes of mayhem one young man broke his leg when he was accidentally run over by a police patrol car.
Spaniards spoke yesterday of their disgust. Aurelio Langa said: "Who thinks it's okay for 500 kids to be running about in their underwear, shouting in the street at 1am? Where were the police? "
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Maria Gomez, spokesman for a residents' association, said: "This morning the streets were full of vomit. This kind of drunken tourism is deplorable."
Jaime Corbella added: "This is unprecedented. I've never seen such behaviour in my life."
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