Liga Santander: Violence invades Spanish football: serious incidents between ultras in Cornellà and Valencia | LaLiga Santander 2019

Near Mestalla, Yomus and Boixos faced each other before the game. Also in Barcelona, ​​between ultras of Espayol and Athletic.

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.

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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 “.