Majorca waiters in brawl with Brit stags say riot erupted after they spent £1,300 on booze & were told to put SHIRTS on
TWO waiters injured in a violent brawl with Brit stags have revealed how the riot erupted after they spent a whopping £1,300 on booze.
All eight revellers, thought to be made up of one groom and his seven party-going stags, were told to put their shirts on before throwing punches at bar staff.
The group was arrested at Balneario Illetas beach club, located between Palma and Magaluf, just days before attending a wedding on the holiday island.
They were then hauled into a Palma court last night, arriving in handcuffs being trailed by armed cops.
Shocking footage appeared to show security guards grappling with the allegedly drunken holidaymakers on the sand.
The fight saw one waiter hit in the head and two off-duty cops also injured.
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One of the bar staff hurt in the clash claimed the group racked up a £1,300 bill at the high-end restaurant moments before chaos erupted.
It is not yet known if the Brits paid for all their food and drink before getting arrested.
The waiter, who chose to remain anonymous amid fears of losing his job, told : "They were good, fine, having fun. But it all started when they started to go to the bathroom, without clothes.
"We told them 'you have to wear shoes, you have to wear the shirt, you are bringing a lot of sand and in the bathroom there's a lot of water and if you fall and you have pain or you hurt, we've got a problem."
Another staff member told the Brits off for their "rude" behaviour when they began throwing rubbish and cans of beer into the sea, disturbing customers and sunbathers on the beach.
'LIKE A BATTLE'
Waiter Nacho, who got injured in the violent scuffle, said the group had an "aggressive" response to the warning and soon found himself repeatedly punched and caught in a headlock by one of the Brits.
Revealing the group had apparently been drinking since 10am, the Spaniard described the fight as "like a battle".
He told MailOnline: "The fight started with that, the trash, because they were throwing trash into the sea, and our colleagues had gone in for a dip because they finish their work, and they tell them to stop.
"Then they [the British men] start to laugh about him and insult him and some things like that.
"Finally they, the group, start to hit him. Then more colleagues go to the beach to try to stop and then they [the British group] start to hit everybody.
"I try to stop the fight, in as far as I can, it was quite difficult.
"There was the big man in the shorts he starts to hit me, you can see in the video.
"He was hitting in my head, in the back of my neck."
Nacho added he was left with a nasty bruise on his shoulder after he was suddenly grabbed from behind.
The married dad-of-two said: "All the time they don't want to stop…it was like a battle.
"I have to say in 25 years in working in restaurants in Costa del Sol and here in Majorca I've never seen a situation like that."
Another waiter who was punched unconscious told cops in his statement one of the group of tourists told him "I’m going to kill you" as he went to aid a colleague in the fight.
He was then was hit in the head from behind by a second man thought to be the same one that assaulted his co-worker.
He was taken to hospital for treatment and tests but is not thought to have suffered any lasting damage.
HAULED INTO COURT
The eight drunken stags have since been ordered to hand over £850 to get their passports back.
The tourists will only be allowed to leave the Spanish paradise island once they stump up the cash.
But they will continue to be investigated by a judge as part of an ongoing probe following their behind-closed-doors court appearance in the Majorcan capital Palma yesterday afternoon.
The men, aged 24 to 30, were told yesterday they were under formal investigation on suspicion of two crimes.
These include wounding and what can be literally translated as "attack against an authority", which covers actions such as violently resisting arrest right up to assaulting a police officer.
They have not yet been charged with any wrongdoing, as is normal in Spain where formal charges are only laid shortly before trial.
The cash the men will have to hand over if they want to leave Majorca will be used as a deposit that can be put towards compensating injury victims following any convictions.
Looking embarrassed as they held their tops over their head and shuffled through the court doors, the men refused to answer any questions thrown at them as turned up to court.
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The Brits have been staying at a luxury hotel in Palma where rooms at this time of year cost around £200 a night.
Most of the group of holidaymakers are thought to have returned to the hotel after their unexpected night in a police cell.
Anti-tourist measures sweeping hotspots
MAJORCA and Menorca are just some of the European hotspots implementing anti-tourist measures.
Many top holiday destinations across the continent are taking action to prevent unwanted travellers from taking over their towns and cities.
Locals feel they can no longer live in the iconic destinations because they have become overcrowded, unsafe and uncomfortable.
They say there are too many cars on the roads, traffic congestion, overcrowded beaches, blocked access roads, ruined beauty spots and just too many holidaymakers flocking to the island which expects record figures this summer.
In April, thousands of people took to the streets in Tenerife to demand restrictions on holidaymakers after telling Brits to "go home".
The anti-tourist hordes filled a square in the capital brandishing banners including some that read “You enjoy we suffer” in English.
Protests also took place at the same time on other popular Canary islands including Lanzarote and Gran Canaria.
The marches were organised under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit.”
Hotel bosses in Benidorm have even admitted they are “very worried” by the anger growing amongst island residents but branded holiday homes in Spain a "virus".
More recently, the Committee on Tourism, Trade, Employment, Culture and Sport reportedly approved an initiative to reintroduce a cap on cruise ships to Palma, Majorca's capital.
Politicians are keen to implement a new set of rules on cruise ships in terms of taxation, the environment or the use of less polluting fuels to lower numbers coming into the Balearics.