Brit caught up in huge tourism protest says diners enjoying evening meal were ‘forced to get off the street before trouble could start’

A British tourist told MailOnline exclusively this week that a massive anti-tourist protest in Majorca was ‘intimidating’ as she witnessed locals telling foreign diners outside of restaurants to ‘go home’.

An estimated 15,000 locals joined the protest that snaked through the capital Palma and headed for Weyler Square on Saturday, where holidaymakers were out in force for dinner and drinks. 

Polly Taylor, who was dining with three friends, said that she initially had no idea what the crowd were doing until they started to come closer to the restaurant as armed police began to show up on the scene. 

‘It was like a storm was coming but we didn’t know what the storm was about….then the noise from the protestors just got louder and louder and we were swamped with them’, Taylor said. 

Eventually, as the small group with whistles and drums began to get louder and louder, a Majorcan who was dining nearby attempted to engage with the agitators.