Video shared on TikTok appeared to show a large number of people involved in fights as violence broke out in the Bavarian Village beer hall at Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland
A TikTok video has showed the moment a mass brawl broke out inside the beer tent at London’s Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park.
The clip shows multiple fights underway in a bavarian-style beer hall at the annual Christmas event, with each one appearing to involve several people as horrified guests look on. That included the person who shot the video, who captioned it: “POV: your first time in WWL and you experience this,” adding: “Not the experience I was expecting”.
The chaotic video is rendered even more surreal as the viral ‘Jet2 Holiday’ advert audio was edited on top of it. Then, at one point someone in the beer tent appeared to play a snippet from the Italian protest song ‘Bella Ciao’ as the fight broke out.
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As one group of men appeared to grapple and throw hands with each other, the camera pans over the shocked crowd. There, another brawl appears to be getting underway as revellers jostled and threw punches.
At one point a man appears to stumble to the floor. There, he appears to be targeted by a group while lying on the ground, with men appearing to kick at him.
The clip was posted onto TikTok. There, it has racked up more than 185,000 views on the video sharing app. The Mirror 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 also 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 chaotic event is reported to bring in around £100 million to London. This includes raising money to maintain public parks.
