A viral TikTok video showed the moment multiple fights broke out inside the beer hall at London’s Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, with the scenes witnessed by horrified guests at the annual Christmas event
A TikTok video captured the moment a mass brawl appeared to erupt in the beer tent at London’s Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. The footage appears to show two fights taking place at the same time, involving several people, in a Bavarian-style beer hall.
Shocked visitors to the Christmas event looked on in disbelief – including the person filming, who wrote: “POV: your first time in WWL and you experience this,” before adding: “Not the experience I was expecting”.
In the clip, one group of blokes appears to throw punches at each other, before the camera pans across and captures another fracas. A man seems to stumble to the ground, and is set upon by a group by of men appearing to kick him, before security staff intervene and break up both rumbles as revellers look on in shock.
The footage amassed more than 185,000 views on TikTok. The Daily Star has contacted the Met Police for comment.
A Winter Wonderland spokesperson said: “The safety of our visitors and staff is our top priority, and aggressive or threatening behaviour is not tolerated under any circumstances and is dealt with immediately by on-site security in coordination with the authorities.
“Hyde Park Winter Wonderland is a large-scale seasonal event, welcoming around three million visits over a six-week period.
“We work closely with the Metropolitan Police and relevant authorities to ensure security and crowd-management measures are robust and appropriate throughout the event.
“The vast majority of our guests have a positive experience. As with any event of this scale, there can occasionally be instances of antisocial behaviour, which are managed swiftly and have no impact on the wider event.”
This is not the first time that the event has seen problems, with a previous incident resulting in a woman being knocked to the ground unconscious. An eyewitness to that incident previously told the Daily Mail: “We were in the Bavarian beer garden beer hall and then it closed at 10, and everyone was asked to leave as normal.
“When we exited, they’d created a gated alleyway with a construction fence which created a huge bottleneck. It wasn’t even that busy but then all of a sudden, there’s about a couple thousand people in this one area, and just at a standstill.
“And then security had locked themselves outside of the gate, which is when the fight broke out. Everyone was very drunk, you could tell something was going to happen.”
A spokesperson for Hyde Park Winter Wonderland said at the time that the brawl was “managed promptly by on-site security, with police present”. They added: “There was no impact on the wider event and no serious injuries reported”.
The event is said to contribute approximately £100 million to London’s economy. This includes funds raised for the upkeep of public parks.
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