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This is the moment England rugby star Billy Vunipola laughs off being tasered by police as they try to eject him from a Majorca nightclub at 4.30am.
In footage obtained by MailOnline, the hulking 6ft2, 20-stone man-mountain is seen being surrounded by nine officers.
The bare-chested 31-year-old swipes out at one with his T-shirt in his hand and then walks menacingly towards him.
He is stopped by another officer who pulls him back to the bar while a colleague takes aim with a taser, which seemingly has no effect.
Vunipola glares over at the policeman who still has the taser trained on him but starts laughing out loud.
Billy Vunipola laughs after police tried to Taser him inside a late-night bar in Majorca
This is the moment England rugby star Billy Vunipola laughs off being tasered by police as they try to eject him from a Majorca nightclub at 4.30am. In footage obtained by MailOnline, the hulking 6ft2, 20-stone man-mountain is seen being surrounded by nine officers
The bare-chested 31-year-old swipes out at one with his T-shirt in his hand and then walks menacingly towards him. He is stopped by another officer who pulls him back to the bar while a colleague takes aim with a taser, which seemingly has no effect
As he tries to put his shirt back on, he is hit by second dart, which this time incapacitates him and sends him stumbling forward. The officers then pounce on him on mass and bundle him onto the floor, where they cuff his hands
Billy Vunipola of England looks on dejected during the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final between England and South Africa at International Stadium Yokohama on November 02, 2019 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
As he tries to put his shirt back on, he is hit by second dart, which this time incapacitates him and sends him stumbling forward.
The officers then pounce on him on mass and bundle him onto the floor, where they cuff his hands.
Vunipola - who plays as a number 8 for Premiership Rugby team Saracens - had been drinking with a friend in a late-night bar called Epic opposite the seafront in Palma, Majorca in the early hours of Sunday morning.
He drank £100 worth of Amarettos with orange juice and freshly squeezed lime - having already downed vodka shots and rum in another bar nearby.
Nightclub security had tried to throw him out after he became abusive to staff who warned him several times to put his shirt back on.
Full footage of the clash was released today by the management of Epic, who are now considering legal action against Vunipola to reclaim £5000 lost as a result of his alcohol-fuelled antics, which saw around 60 patrons forcibly removed from the bar by police just after 4am.
The sheepish rugby star - who had been teetotal for two years before falling off the wagon - arrived back in the UK yesterday, having been fined 240 Euros (£205) and handed a four-month suspended prison sentence after appearing in court.
In a statement he confirmed he was involved in 'an unfortunate misunderstanding' leaving a club in Majorca.
However, co-owner of Epic, Janek Krause 40, told MailOnline: 'There was no misunderstanding - he was told four or five times to calm down and put his shirt on but he was drunk and refused.
'He's a very big, powerful guy and the security we're trying to reason with him, but he was being aggressive, so the police were called.
'At the time we had 60-or so customers, the place is always busy, especially at weekends, but for safety reasons everyone was ordered out and we had to close the bar.
'There were about nine or ten police officers surrounding the rugby player. Some were pointing tasers at him. He was still refusing to get out and when he lashed out at one of the officers with his shirt, he was shot with a taser.
'The first dart did nothing and he just leant back and laughed but the second time he felt it and fell forward. That's when the police managed to get him under control after pushing him down onto the ground.
Nightclub security had tried to throw him out after he became abusive to staff who warned him several times to put his shirt back on
Full footage of the clash was released today by the management of Epic, who are now considering legal action against Vunipola to reclaim £5000 lost as a result of his alcohol-fuelled antics, which saw around 60 patrons forcibly removed from the bar by police just after 4am
Police stormed the Epic bar in Palma to subdue Vunipola using two rounds of taser
The England international has been arrested following an incident in a Majorca bar which saw police taser him twice - picture shows his arrival at court in Palma
Saracens revealed they will be dealing with the issue 'internally', while Vunipola apologised
England and Saracens star Billy Vunipola has found himself at the centre of an unseemly drama
England international Vunipola, 31, pictured with his wife Simmone at their wedding in Tonga
'The whole incident lasted about 20-minutes. We're now talking to our lawyers because we must have lost about 2-3000 Euros in takings.
'We stay open later than most bars in Palma as we close at 5am so the last hour is usually our busiest. But on Sunday we had to close at 4am, turn the music off and usher everyone out the bar.
'You must also think of the damage to the club's reputation as some of the customers in there at the time may have been put off coming in again.
'He hasn't apologised or been in touch. We're going to discuss with our lawyers the possibility of recouping something like 5000 Euros from him.'
Mr Krause said Vunipola walked in with a friend around 3am on Sunday and ordered six Amarettos adding: 'Four of them were from him and two for his friend.
'They were lining up drinks and he was very drunk, but his friend was very helpful in trying to calm him
