{"id":69314,"date":"2025-05-02T20:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69314\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:36:21","slug":"man-wields-chair-during-edinburgh-street-brawl-which-left-one-person-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69314\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wields chair during Edinburgh ‘street brawl’ which left one person in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergency crews raced to South Bridge, at the junction with High Street, shortly before 4am on Friday morning,. May 2.\"TheThe man appeared to be holding a chair during an altercation.(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n

A man threatened ‘topless’ men with a chair during an alleged Edinburgh<\/a> street brawl which left one person in hospital.<\/p>\n

Emergency crews raced to South Bridge<\/a>, at the junction with High Street, shortly before 4am on Friday morning,. May 2.<\/p>\n

As Edinburgh Live reports, <\/a>footage from the scene shows several people clashing on the middle of the road, one of which appears to be holding a chair aloft.<\/p>\n

Two other men who appear to be topless can be seen dodging the man before he appears to connect with one swing infront of stunned onlookers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Several men go over in an attempt to defuse the situation as another is pushed to the ground. <\/a>Police were called and a 37-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n

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A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 3.50am on Friday, 2 May, 2025, we received a report of an assault on South Bridge, Edinburgh.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Emergency services attended and a 25-year-old man was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh<\/a> for treatment.<\/p>\n

“A 37-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection. He is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court<\/a> at a later date.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews raced to South Bridge, at the junction with High Street, shortly before 4am on Friday morning,.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,30,1102,4884,530,13841,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-69314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-royal-infirmary-of-edinburgh","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114440161610902955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}