Valencia: Box surrounded, fights and police charges, burning containers: such a night in Valencia

The night ended badly. Inside and outside the stadium. Valencia fans charged by National Police which surrounded the exit from the Mestalla box on Sweden Street after the team’s new defeat to La Palmas, which sent the Baraja team to last position in the table. The images of hundreds of fans running from the police were very painful.

The incidents continued when some more radical fan groups decided set the container on fire on the streets adjacent to the stadium, giving rise to a feeling of vandalism and an unusual open crisis. Tensions erupted in Valencia on Monday morning.

The first loud whistle sounded at the end of the game. Many people had already left the stands with their patience at breaking point, and thousands of fans gathered in the streets of Sweden to shout slogans against the club president. Lei Hong Chan and against largest shareholder Peter Lim. “You will not leave” was repeated many times, prompting the National Police to cordon off the area and increasing tension. So much so that the situation ended with police charges.

Last players to leave

The last to leave the stadium were the players and coaching staff, along with their families. After twelve thirty at night, an hour and a half after Gil Manzano finished the match. The squad led by Baraja left at the same time to avoid any incidents.. At this time, there were practically no fans left around the stadium and their arrival at the parking lot for personal transport was calm, of course, guarded by the National Police corridor, after everything that had happened an hour earlier in the same street.