Dantesque image on Sweden Street with the Police charging against the fans who surrounded the exit of the box with a Valencia at the bottom and without direction
The Police cordoning off the exit of the box.FERNANDO ALVAREZ
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FERNANDO ÁLVAREZ AND DIEGO PICÓ
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The night ended badly. Inside and outside the stadium. The National Police charged against Valencia fans that surrounded the exit of the Mestalla box on Sweden Street after the team’s new defeat against La Palmas that sent those from Baraja to the last position in the table. The images of hundreds of fans running away from the Police were very hard.
The incidents continued when some more radical groups of fans decided set fire to a container in the streets adjacent to the stadium, generating a sensation of vandalism and an out-of-normal open crisis. The tension in Valencia broke out this Monday morning.
The first big whistle came at the end of the game. Many people had already left the stands with patience at the limit and thousands of fans gathered on Sweden Street to shout slogans against the president of the club, Lay Hoon Chan and against the largest shareholder Peter Lim. “You are not going to come out” was repeated on many occasions and that caused the National Police to cordon off the area and tension increased. So much so that the situation ended with a police charge.
The players, the last to leave
The last to leave the stadium were the players and the coaching staff along with their families. After twelve thirty at night, an hour and a half after Gil Manzano ended the match. The squad, with Baraja at the head, left at the same time to avoid any incidents.. At that time there were practically no fans left around the stadium and their arrival at the parking lot to pick up their private vehicles was calm, of course, guarded by a corridor of the National Police, after everything that happened an hour before in the same streets.
