Les Voltes gathered 3,200 people this Wednesday evening during the event day of the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest. Three days earlier, the National Police had closed access to the same venue when there were only just over 500 participants in the demonstration against tourist overcrowding. The difference has raised questions because the closing of the gates was, according to the protest organizers, the origin of the tension that led to the police charges.

One of the more than twenty people who were injuries during the police charges with which the demonstration against tourist saturation on Sunday in Palma ended is still hospitalized. The affected parties are now considering the possibility of filing a collective complaint against the National Police officers who participated in the operation. This was announced this Tuesday by one of the spokespersons for the platform Menys Turisme, Més Vida, Jaume Pujol, during the rally that brought together nearly half a thousand people in front of the government delegation to demand the resignation of the delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez.

There is an image that better than any other summarizes what happened on Sunday: a massive and profoundly civic demonstration that ends with people injured by a violent police action. The question is inevitable: who had an interest in the narrative ceasing to be about mass tourism and becoming about public order?

The National Police attributes the charges made on Sunday at the end of the demonstration against tourist saturation to a "radical minority". Police sources consulted by Europa Press assure that a group integrated within the tens of thousands of participants threw stones, cobblestones, and sticks at the agents, four of whom were injured.

Marga Prohens has avoided commenting on the National Police charges against the protesters. The president assures that she cannot determine if it was a "disproportionate" action, because she "does not know the circumstances under which it occurred" and also does not know "the orders they had received".

For more than ten years, in the summer, we no longer go to Cala Varques. We stopped going there before admitting that it had been taken from us. Just as we have stopped going to Caló del Moro, Es Trenc, Formentor and so many other places. In conversations these days, while WhatsApp groups organize carpools to go to Palma on Sunday, organizations prepare buses and groups of friends paint banners, an intimate and endless list appears of everything we have stopped doing, swallowed by the collapse.

The arrests of two activists accused of making graffiti against five real estate agencies in Santa Maria have raised tensions ahead of the anti-tourist massification demonstration called for this Sunday, July 26, in Palma. The GOB considers the action against the two women to have been "disproportionate" and warns that the case "further inflames spirits," while making it clear that the graffiti should not have been done.

The territorial coordinator of GOB, Miquel Camps Taltavull (Maó, 1963), is warming up to launch from this Saturday, June 13 (7:30 PM), the new summer of mobilizations announced by Via Menorca. An army of ants "fed up with mass tourism" are already walking towards the Biosphere Square in Maó to demonstrate in defense of the right to housing and against those who "suck our water dry until the aquifers are left dry" and those who "condemn us to precarious jobs to barely live off tourism".

Less Tourism, More Life has already set a date for the new protest against tourist saturation in the Balearic Islands: July 26th. This Sunday, June 7th, on the steps of the Cathedral, the organization will present both this call to action and other actions planned for this summer to fight against massification and the economic and tourism model of the Archipelago.