A dive instructor has been arrested for allegedly raping a German tourist during an excursion off Majorca, local media says.
The alleged sex attack is said to have happened after the holidaymaker remained in the boat with one of the monitors while her friends began their dive with other instructors.
She told her friends what had happened when they returned to the boat before making a formal complaint at a Civil Guard station in Santanyi in south-east Majorca.
Majorcan paper Ultima Hora said the incident happened on Friday during a dive trip off Cabrera, a national park which is 11 miles off the southern coast of Majorca.
The force has yet to make an official statement.
The woman, who underwent a medical examination at Son Espases Hospital in Palma after filing her complaint, is understood to be German.
The dive instructor, who has not been named, has denied any wrongdoing and has been released without charge by an investigating judge pending an ongoing criminal probe.
Statements are due to be taken in the next few days from friends of the holidaymakers who went on the diving trip.
German tourists were the first to return to Spain when the country began to re-open its borders after the coronavirus lockdown last month.
Britons were allowed to enter the country from June 21, but England only lifted its own quarantine rules on July 10 meaning people no longer have to self-isolate when they return from Spain.
The Cabrera national park belongs to Spain’s defence ministry and is described as ‘one of the most beautiful gems of the Mediterranean’.
Holiday firms offer boat tours around the archipelago and its series of caves, offering people the chance to go swimming or snorkelling in the Mediterranean.
