Eight stag do Brits arrested over mass fight at Majorcan restaurant

This is the disturbing moment a group of British tourists on a stag do in the Spanish island of Majorca started a melee at a restaurant.

Footage shows the brawl at a beach club restaurant called Balneario Illetas during which a waiter was wounded.

A total of eight men, all from the UK, were arrested after shortly after the violence erupted at around 7.30pm on Wednesday during stag do celebrations.

It is understood that the group began throwing beer cans and rubbish in the sea, and when confronted about it by staff at the restaurant, they started fighting.

Authorities in the town of Calvià, the municipality where the club is located, said: ‘The response of the group, who appeared to have drunk excessively, was really extremely violent.’

The tourists began attacking staff and a waiter was hit in the head. Local media reported that two police officers were also injured in the scuffle.

Eight British tourists were detained (Picture: SOLARPIX.COM)

Police said they had ‘rarely witnessed such a violent reaction’ on the part of the detainees.

Sources cited by local council authorities said the attackers confronted officers and tried to flee when they saw that they were trapped.

All eight tourists spent the night in cells. By the morning, seven customers at the restaurant an sunbathers had already pressed charges against them.

Calvià Council said this morning: ‘A mass fight at the Balneario Illetas restaurant on Wednesday has led to the arrest of eight English men aged around 30.

‘A waiter was injured after being hit in the head and two police officers were also hurt and are awaiting a medical evaluation.

‘The incident occurred around 7.30pm when a group of English tourists were on a stag do having gone to Illetes from Palma, because some of them were staying at a hotel in the area.

‘One of the restaurant staff spoke to them about their incivic behaviour when they began to throw rubbish and cans of lager into the sea as well as annoying other customers and sunbathers on the beach.’

The brawl comes just days after as many as 10,000 people marched through the capital, Palma, demanding limits on the number of tourists.

The anti-tourism movement stems from frustrations with British tourists and social and environmental costs inflicted on locals.

Some are even proposing to blockade the airport with cars and hold mass protest outside hotels.

Calvià’s deputy mayor Esperanza Catala said this morning after visiting the eatery to express her support: ‘It’s regrettable incidents like this, despite being infrequent, have occurred in our municipality.

‘But let no-one be mistaken, we are going to be inflexible with this sort of people that we don’t want in Calvià and we are not going to let them get away with anything.

‘We are not going to allow anyone to come here that puts the security of our municipality at risk and damages our image.

‘They need to take note and go somewhere else if they don’t know how to behave.’

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