Eight arrests following raid on Mallorca's 'drugs supermarket'

Police drugs operation in Palma, Mallorca

Police in Son Banya on Wednesday | Photo: Miquel À. Cañellas

Andrew EdePalma02/07/2025 18:03

National Police units raided the Son Banya shanty town in Palma on Wednesday morning, the operation having ended around 11.30am.

Eight arrests were made at what is sometimes referred to as Mallorca's 'drugs supermarket'. Six drugs' sales points were dismantled, these being booths the drugs clans in Son Banya have set up so as to avoid having to sell drugs from their homes.

There typically aren't large quantities of drugs at these sales points. Stocks are replenished on a daily basis, so that if there is a raid, there is less for the police to confiscate.

The clans also believe that the booths limit arrests. If so, this didn't prevent the police from taking eight people away in vans once the operation was completed.

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Stan The Man | 9 days ago

Why have the Authorities not destroyed these "Dealers in Death" and their illegal dens..?

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Nickademus | 10 days ago

What a tiresome pantomime; the authorities appear to be suspiciously incapable of solving this long running cat and mouse affair, but within hours of putting my garden refuse out in front of my house, after dozens of attempts to call the local council to arrange collection... the police are knocking on my door with threats of fines etc! Pathetic!

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