r/valencia • u/NomativeDeterminism • 1d ago

News & Alerts Violence at the market

I was just at the market and noticed a bunch of people running with blood gushing out of their heads and necks. Does anyone know what occurred?

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u/your_muse_22 1d ago

Found post on X that seems to show this incident https://x.com/leonenlascalles/status/1964740182974075290?s=46&t=RFpFVPuSH73ykpGzQWvrig

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u/NomativeDeterminism 1d ago

Thank you for posting this. This is what I what saw as well. Crazy that so many in the comments were calling me a liar or a bot.

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u/SnooDingos4442 1d ago

Because there's a massive wave of far right propaganda linking any type of violence to how brown people are going to destroy our country because of a super hardcore communist conspiracy to destroy and replace white people. Maybe people thought you were trying to make a subtle approach to that.

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u/Gloomy-Chest-1888 23h ago

Si si si si, todo es propaganda.

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u/Southern-Leopard-370 1d ago

Lol "the new Barcelona" social media loves to blow things out of proportion to get that engagement

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u/card677 1d ago

I just saw it on twitter. I don't know why people are downvoting you.

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u/Pretend-Tadpole9960 1d ago

Funny. Mercado Central doesn't open on a Sunday.

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u/More_Code_8142 1d ago

It’s the mercadillo 

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u/Anodynic 1d ago

I am surprised, it is really rare for violence to happen here. Interested to know what happened and I hope everyone is alright.

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u/BigFatUglyBaboon 1d ago

I live nearby, after seeing this post I went to verify, saw no evidence of anything having happened 1.5hrs ago. (no crowds, no national police, nobody freaking out, just people enjoying their afternoon). I did see a local police patrol car with two officers outside but nothing out of the ordinary.

I'll be alert to the news but I'd take this report with a grain of salt meanwhile.

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u/Party_Safe_1832 1d ago

Some British guys jumped off a balcony above the market

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u/NomativeDeterminism 1d ago

There were a few of the market vendors who looked like they had been stabbed or cut with knives or sharp objects.

I also noticed a family with strollers and the dad also had been cut and was bleeding very badly.

One of the shop keepers came out with a wooden chair looking for the perpetrators.

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u/Brent_L 1d ago edited 1d ago

But the market is closed on Sundays. What are you referring to?

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u/NomativeDeterminism 1d ago

It happened outside the market.

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u/Brent_L 1d ago

Sounds like someone tried to break up a fight of some sort. Valencia is a low crime city but no city of 800,000 people is immune to crime in general.

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u/NomativeDeterminism 1d ago

Yea I believe that’s what must have happened too, or maybe they were defending themselves against a robbery. The police showed up quickly and the commotion died down soon after. Hope no one was seriously injured.

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u/Party_Safe_1832 1d ago

Yeah they landed on a market stall selling knives

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u/xBRITISHxM8x 1d ago

Can confirm - I am one of the British guys

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u/Party_Safe_1832 1d ago

Congrats on your safe landing 🤝

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u/EggplantGullible7966 1d ago

Mass suicide? That’s awful.

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u/David-J 1d ago

What market?

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u/rickkln 1d ago

I think they mean the stalls selling clothes, cds and other crap in front of La Lonja. They are there even when Mercat Central is closed

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u/NomativeDeterminism 1d ago

Mercado central. It happened around 16:30.

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u/Desperate_Word9862 1d ago

So we know this - people jumped or fell to their deaths? This resulted in multiple people being stabbed? Someone posted it on Reddit?

So we know nothing.

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u/Chronos_Warp 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just found this article that seems to fit the given description: https://www.lasprovincias.es/sucesos/rina-tumultuaria-centro-valencia-20250907111745-nt.html

Edit: after checking time and place it definitely doesn't match (14.00 vs 16.00, plaza de toros vs mercado central) but still, seems interesting that such a violent scene has happened so recently and so close.

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u/Life-Resort2218 1d ago

That's yesterday - nothing to do with today's events

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u/mk3_3 1d ago

La nueva normalidad

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u/Additional_Waltz_569 1d ago

https://www.lasprovincias.es/sucesos/rina-tumultuaria-centro-valencia-20250907111745-nt.html.
Ocupación de un inmueble ocupado.

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u/card677 1d ago

Esa es la pelea de ayer en la calle Colón. La de hoy ha pasado en la Plaza del Mercado.

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u/Burner_acc_2025 1d ago

Ya está… nos ganaron, habrá que irse lejos.

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u/Platypus_Ashamed 1d ago

Nos ganó quien? La tasa de criminalidad en València desciende aún más que en el resto de España, donde la tendencia también es a la baja. 

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/NomativeDeterminism 1d ago

I gave one of the market vendors who was bleeding water and the police came within 5 minutes of the event. My wife was traumatized from what she saw and we decided to leave instead of getting in the way of police.