‘Wolf pack’ rapists named after Magaluf hotel attack on British teen
The names of the ‘wolf pack’ who targeted a teenage British gang rape victim in a Magaluf hotel can today be revealed.
The seven French men and one Swiss national accepted prison sentences totaling just over 73 years after striking plea bargain deals with prosecutors just as their four-day trial was about to begin.
Before they decided to plead guilty as part of their deals, the group had been warned they faced being caged for more than 150 years if convicted as charged.
The names of the eight accused can be revealed for the first time today, along with what the court heard they did to the 18-year-old British holidaymaker at the BH Mallorca Resort.
French tourists Khalil Abderrahmen Mejbri and Romain Charles Michel Galatioto raped their victim, who had been drinking heavily and "fell into a state of unconscious," the court heard. Frenchman Anthony Guy Gerard Wengler and Swiss national Lucas Haiaiel Ngandjeu Djamen Tchatchou raped her at "least once," as well as Thomas Eric Coretin Wisniewski who is also from France.
Tchatchou and Wengler spat at the victim and whipped her along with Mejbri after Frenchman Satilmis Sahan slapped her.
French national Anthony Auque, who was holidaying with Wengler, and fellow Frenchman Mouhamadou Wade watched on while the 30-minute gang rape occurred, surrounding the victim along with the rest of the group chanting sick encouragement during the attack.
Members of the group also “laughed out loudly” as they shouted out other insults while continuing their assault.
The BH Hotel in Magaluf
The document, the plea agreement all eight men accepted and signed, says: “Each one of the defendants with their mobile phones, during the incidents previously described, recorded several videos.
“Anthony Auque recorded with his mobile phone 14 videos lasting 170 seconds in total; Khalil Abderrahmen Mejbri recorded with his mobile phone five videos lasting 142 seconds; Mohamadou Wade recorded with his mobile phone two videos lasting a total of 26 seconds and took a photograph; and Anthony Guy Gerard Wengler; Satilmis Sahan; Romain Charles Michel Galatioto; Thomas Eric Coretin Wisniewski; and Lucas Haiaiel Ngandjeu Djamen Tchatchou did the same on at least one occasion.
“Boasting about the actions taken and with the clear intention of humiliating and violating their victim, Mejbri and Wade sent and shared the content of their recordings through the Snapchat app.
“Those recordings were taken during the time in which their victim was semi-conscious or unconscious so that she was unable to consent to it.”
Mejbri and Wisniewski accepted a nine-year prison sentence for a crime of “sexual assault with carnal access,” a severe form of sexual crime involving non-consensual sexual penetration of the victim.
Wengler, Tchatchou, and Galatioto were handed 11-year jail sentences after admitting the same offense.
Sahan admitted a crime of “sexual assault without penetration” for which he was given a four-year prison sentence.
All eight men, the five self-confessed sexual offenders as well as Auque and Wade who admitted to filming their victim being targeted, were each handed two-year three-month prison sentences after admitting a crime of violation of privacy relating to the recordings they made on their mobile phones.
Sahan, Auque, and Wade had already been granted bail before the scheduled start of yesterday’s trial and remain on bail. At least two of them are unlikely to be hauled back to prison because of time they served on remand behind bars before they were granted bail around nine months ago.
The other five remain in prison pending a further court hearing next month where a judge is set to be asked by their defense lawyers to agree to kick them out of Spain once they have served part of their jail time.
The teenage British victim was not required to give evidence beyond the witness statement she had already given under oath to investigators. She is understood to have admitted to cops she had no real recollection of the multiple sex attacks she was subjected to because she was barely conscious after drinking heavily.
The sickening footage recorded by the men, who came from different groups and didn’t all know each other before they targeted their victim, proved key in their arrests and subsequent successful prosecution.
One well-placed insider said: “They came from about four different groups. The room where the sexual assaults took place was occupied by two friends but they didn’t know the others involved.
“It was almost a case of them opening the door and inviting others passing by in the corridor to join in.
“If the men hadn’t filmed what they’d done they could have got off scot-free.”
Another said: “If they hadn’t put their hands up to wrongdoing as part of plea bargain deals and decided to go to full trial, many of these men could have spent the rest of their lives in prison.
“Some have never agreed to answer questions or give statements. These men appear on the surface to be regular young guys who don’t come from broken families and have never tried to allege they were acting out of character by trying to link what they did to the abuse of alcohol or drugs. It’s such a shocking case.”
Two of the suspects, charged following a lengthy probe by an investigating magistrate, were held abroad on a European Arrest Warrant and extradited. Six were detained in Majorca.
At least six of the men are known to have been aged between 18 and 26 when they were arrested.
None of the eight had criminal records in Spain at the time they committed their sickening offenses.
A security guard at the hotel where the incident occurred came to the rescue of the British teenager after finding her sobbing on the floor in the lobby. He had just come in for his morning shift and described the police response at the time as very quick and efficient.
Bruises were found on the tourist’s arm during a medical examination which were believed to have been caused by her sex attackers holding her down. She also suffered a cut to her chest.
The eight men convicted have had to compensate their victim with more than €100,000.
Head of Investigations
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