Just six weeks after the Tunisian beach massacre that saw 38 holidaymakers executed, a Turkish hotel has terrified Brit guests by staging a mock ISIS terror attack.
Armed with fake guns and cans of liquid marked ‘fuel’, staff at the five-star Grand Yazici Mares hotel in Icmeler, Turkey, pranked sunbathers by the pool - many of who were British.
In scenes that echoed the massacre in Sousse in June this year, men wandered around with ‘machine guns’, while guests apparently ran for their lives as another man carrying ‘fuel’ pulled out a lighter.
The mock attack was apparently a ‘Hollywood-themed poolside show’ but guests did not find it entertaining or funny.
One Brit holidaymaker, Jason Pythiain, told The Sun that everyone around the pool “suddenly became terrified”.
The 43-year-old electrician from Greater Manchester said: “I looked around and saw Arab-looking guys stalking around and above the pool carrying big guns.
“Then one threw the bucket over me. [Sister] Dawn had been haunted by the news of the Tunisia attack and we’d tried really hard to persuade her to come with us.
“You could see in her face that she thought her worst nightmare was coming true.“
He added: “Other holidaymakers really panicked. It was completely out of order.”
After being told that the whole thing was simply a show, Mr Pythian, who was on holiday to celebrate his father George’s 70th birthday, joined a group of Brits to complain to the hotel manager.
He added: “Obviously the staff knew what they were doing and were trying to ease the tensions of people at the hotel by having a joke.
“They thought it would be funny to scare everyone.
“But it was absolutely disgusting to try and make light of Tunisia in that way.” (Read the full article)
Not funny. I mean if they were doing a 'practice' drill of what they would/should do in a situation with everyone knowing it's a drill, I'd understand a little but for them to do an outright prank like that is not cool. Some people have weak hearts and could have had a stroke.
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