MADRID : England rugby international Billy Vunipola was arrested by police in Majorca, Spain after being involved in a violent incident at a pub, reports in Spanish media said on Monday.
FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union - Rugby World Cup 2023 - England Press Conference - Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille, France - September 22, 2023 England's Billy Vunipola during the press conference REUTERS/Stephanie Lecoc/FILE PHOTO
The report added that the 31-year-old was handcuffed by the police and taken to the Son Espases hospital in Palma, where he was sedated, before being taken to court on Sunday afternoon. "In the early hours of yesterday morning, at 4.30 am, the National Police proceeded to the arrest of a 31-year-old foreign man, for a crime of disobedience and attacking a police officer...," a spokesperson for the National Police in Majorca told Reuters.
"A second projectile was then fired, which did the job, and it was then that the officers jumped on him and proceeded to immobilise him by shackling him, later taking him to Son Espases hospital for assessment and arrest."
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