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Spanish island makes brutal vow after chaos at popular tourist hotspots

Spanish island makes brutal vow after chaos at popular tourist hotspots

As concern around over-tourism continues to spread across Spain, local authorities in the Balearics deployed a rather unusual strategy - which it now admits massively backfired

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