Several videos of a violent police intervention in the city of Valencia have unleashed controversy on social networks. In one of the files, recorded from a window, several agents with extensible batons hit a woman and throw her to the ground. The events occurred this Saturday at 3:00 p.m. on a street near the Joaquín Sorolla train station. The National Police has assured El País, that the intervention was produced by the alleged commission of a crime of threats with a white weapon, although they do not give much more information because the “investigation is ongoing.” There are at least three injured agents and five people have been arrested, but the police do not specify the injured of this part.
In another of the videos, recorded from the street in front, several agents hit a man who starts running and chasing him closely in the images is seen how one of the agents tries to kick him. A few meters later they push him hard inside a portal and he is no longer seen.
The detainees is Layli Colorado, a 26th Colombian young woman who has lived in the city for three and a half years. In statements a eldiario.es He said: “I felt a lot of anger, helplessness, fear and helplessness when several agents hit me and handcuffed me simply for denying me to identify me after shaving them to treat two young people who had just stopped.”
Colorado explains to the aforementioned newspaper that “I was on the street accompanied by my son, three -year -old and with autism, and a Spanish girl with whom he was talking when we saw two police officers who had detained and handcuffed on the sidewalk to two young people whom they had set a foot in the torso of one and another agent another foot in the ankle of the other”. At that time, he explains that the girl with whom he was shaving his performance, to which the agents, according to Layli, shouted “that she did not get into, that it was not a matter of her incumbency.”
Colorado explains that “I asked him why and, when he asked me the documentation, I refused because I considered that we had not done anything; so he told me that I had to be arrested, before what I refused again.” It is at that time, he explains, “he pushes me back against a car to put on my wives; then they threw me to the ground and started hitting me, and then I started to scream because I was afraid for my three -year -old son, who had stayed alone.”
This newspaper has tried to contact the people who have allegedly suffered police abuse through an NGO in contact with them, but prefer to “do not make statements until they have legal advice,” the organization explains.
The National Police of Valencia ensures that the videos correspond to the end of the intervention and warns that “it does not see what happens before”, although
So far the Government Delegation in Valencia has not spoken about the facts, although this newspaper has contacted them.
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