EIGHT ‘stag do’ tourists have been arrested following a mass fight at a restaurant in Majorca.
The violent brawl took place at beach club restaurant Balneario Illetas where the “drunk” Brits were fighting bar staff and hurling beer into the sea.
SolarpixEight ‘drunk’ Brits have been arrested after a stag do brawl in Majorca[/caption]
SolarpixThe men reportedly attacked staff and hurled beer into the sea[/caption]
SolarpixThe fight took place at beach club restaurant Balneario Illetas[/caption]
The mass stag do fight took place on Wednesday at 7.30pm local time.
Town hall chiefs in Calvia, the municipality where the eatery is located, said a waiter had been injured after being hit in the head and two police officers were also hurt.
Cops said they were offering their support to the restaurant and intended taking a tough stance against people who “put the security of the municipality at risk and damage our image.”
A council spokesperson urged “tourists like these” to go somewhere else instead of coming to Calvia, which is also home to the party resort of Magaluf.
In a statement, Calvia 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.
“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.”
The statement revealed that a restaurant staff spoke to the Brits about their “incivic behaviour” when they began to throw rubbish and cans of beer into the sea.
The group was also ” annoying other customers and sunbathers on the beach.”
Officials said the Brits, who appeared to have “drunk excessively”, had an extremely violent response to the warning, later attacking staff and the police.
Two off-duty Civil Guards, a Guard patrol and six local Calvia Town Hall-employed police were at the scene.
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Calvia Council added: “Police sources said they had rarely witnessed such a violent reaction on the part of the detainees who confronted the officers and tried to flee when they saw they were trapped.
“The eight people arrested have been held in police cells overnight.
“Seven restaurant customers and sunbathers have already pressed charges against the violent tourists.”
Calvia’s deputy mayor Esperanza Catala visited the beachside restaurant this morning to show her support.
She said: “It’s regrettable incidents like this, despite being infrequent, have occurred in our municipality.
“But let noone be mistaken, we are going to be inflexible with this sort of people that we don’t want in Calvia and we are not going to let them get away with anything.
Mayor Catala added: “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.”
It comes after protesters said they are preparing to take over Majorca’s beaches in a new stand over mass tourism to “squeeze” out foreign tourists.
Saturday’s march in Palma involved around 15,000 people – and the organisers promised: “This is just the start of things.”
A group calling itself Mallorca Platja Tour – Majorca Beach Tour in Catalan – has now started an online campaign urging locals to “occupy” the island’s beaches.
A first show of strength is being organised for this Saturday at Sa Rapita Beach on the island’s south coast to promote a “big event” on June 16 with the slogan: “We fill the beach with Majorcans.”
The latest campaign appears to have been sparked by the comments of Manuela Canadas, spokesman for far-right wing party Vox in the Balearic Islands’ regional parliament.
“Tourist Go Home” graffiti reappeared in Majorca this week following Saturday’s protest in Palma – which led to organisers apologising for the abuse foreign holidaymakers received.
The words “Go Home Tourist” were scrawled last month over a wall underneath a real estate promotion billboard in Nou Llevant near the island capital Palma.
Island newspaper Diario de Mallorca described it at the time as the first example of tourism-phobia in the neighbourhood.
It said it was targeted at “new foreign residents” following the purchase of recently-built properties by Germans.
Yesterday it emerged more graffiti had been scrawled on access signs to the Tramontana mountains.
Local press said the same messages had been left on entrance signs to villages like Valldemossa or Deia – which are swamped by visitors from late spring onwards.
Foreign visitors were booed and jeered by some locals among the thousands who joined in Saturday’s demo as they ate evening meals on terraces in the island capital Palma’s Weyler Square.
Marchers were heard chanting “tourists go home” as they passed through the central square on the 20-minute route from the park where the protest began to iconic street Paseo del Borne.
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