Prison sentence confirmed after death of a German tourist in Spain

Spain’s Supreme Court has confirmed a prison sentence of 12 and a half years for a Spaniard convicted of causing the death of a German holidaymaker in Mallorca.

He was found guilty of manslaughter by a court on the island in December 2024. An initial appeal was rejected, and the Supreme Court has now confirmed the conviction.

His accomplice, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison, had not lodged an appeal. The judgment is legally binding, a spokesman for the Supreme Court in Madrid confirmed to dpa on Wednesday.

The court of first instance and the Court of Appeal in Mallorca had found that the two men picked up the drunk German man near the Ballermann party district in the island’s capital Palma late in the evening of October 8, 2022.

They bundled him into their van and then threw him out of the moving vehicle on the airport motorway. Investigators believe the two Spaniards had wanted to rob the German.

The jury and the judges did not believe the two Spaniards’ assertion that the man had jumped out of the vehicle himself.

A following car was unable to brake in time and ran over the victim.