Near Mestalla, Yomus and Boixos faced each other before the game. Also in Barcelona, between ultras of Espayol and Athletic.
Serious incidents between ultras between the Yomus and Boixos in Valencia
Saturday has dawned tinted with violence in Spanish football. Both in Barcelona, where Espanyol-Athletic was played, as in Valencia (Valencia-Barcelona), there have been serious incidents among ultras fans of the teams.
In the immediate vicinity of the Mestalla stadium, radical followers of Valencia (Yomus) and Barça (Boixos Nois) have engaged in a massive fight. The incidents have begun around noon, hours before the meeting begins, set for four in the afternoon in the Valencian enclosure.
Those involved in the incidents have been hit with punches and sticks and, in addition, plastic cones have been launched, while flares have also been seen that have caused areas of smoke on Sweden Avenue, where the main access to the stadium is located.
Some of those involved in the fight have used the chairs and tables of open bars in the area to throw them against those they faced. Police officers have retained and identified 60 people allegedly linked to violent groups that have participated in the attacks and He has arrested a Barça follower on whom he weighed a legal claim.
Apparently, 120 ultras of Barça they had traveled without a ticket to Valencia, as confirmed by the club itself. The Police believe that they have been summoned by social networks with the Valencian ultras of Yomus, who had concentrated hours before the surrounding streets of Mestalla, before the police device that surrounded the party began. Have come with balaclava at the main entrance doors to the stadium, where clashes have begun.
Valencia has issued an official statement in which to express “its strongest condemnation, once again, towards any expression of violence by people who have nothing to do with the values of the club or represent in any way their great hobby“.
The club, which has already expelled from its animation tier to ultras fans and continues to subject it to a “regeneration process”, reiterates its “firm commitment to a zero tolerance towards all forms of violence linked to football and with the eradication and expulsion of it from the Camp de Mestalla “.
On the other hand, a group of ultras of Espanyol and Athletic from Bilbao (North Herri), of antagonistic ideology, they have faced each other in the center of Cornellà, near the stadium before the match between the two teams. The two groups have thrown all kinds of objects, such as tables, chairs and bottles, and have escaped when the Mossos d'Esquadra who were on the football field have arrived performing the usual security tasks.
The fight has shaken the center of Cornellà on a busy day, as it is an important commercial point, so videos of the clashes over social networks have been seen. Some of them have featured images of people who have suffered significant aggressions not only with punches and kicks but also with blows of chairs on the head when they fall to the ground.
The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested five people and identified another 36 in Cornellà for clashes between two opposing fans, Espanyol and Athletic Club Bilbao. The riot police of the Catalan police had to act before the incidents. The arrested are accused of public disorders and injuries. There is an injured person who was taken to the hospital.
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