MADRID – Britons and other foreigners should leave Mallorca , say anti-tourism protesters who claim they have turned the Spanish island into an “amusement park for the rich”.

In a damning open letter in English and German, addressed to foreign buyers and estate agencies, activists claimed that residents had been “pushed out of their towns by unaffordable prices” caused by foreigners buying property on the island.

The letter, which was seen by The i Paper, says: “For decades now our island has been treated as a commodity, a place to be exploited, a holiday backdrop, a picture postcard to be bought and sold. And this has come at a cost we can no longer bear.”

SOS Residents, which wrote the letter, is among 85 groups that have staged a series of protests in the streets of the Balea

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