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Spanish police attack Celtic fans ahead of Europa League clash

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Ahead of Celtic’s Europa League clash with Valencia tonight Spanish police appeared to be heavy handed with some of the Scottish team’s fans last night (February 20).

Police in full riot gear can be seen swinging their batons punters at the St. Patrick’s Irish bar in central Valencia while the fans can be seen avoiding the blows.

The filmer said: “Generally everyone was just enjoying themselves and having a sing-song, with riot police on the opposite side of the road.

“Every 10 to 15 minutes more police would start to show up and eventually just kept moving in whilst getting geared up.

“After a while, they started to move onto the path and push people into the pub, and then it just turned violent with bats swinging and people getting dragged and thrown into the pub

“The reasoning we’ve been told is they didn’t want folk on the road which was kept to apart from a few footsteps just off the kerb by mistake

“Overall I don’t know what anyone did wrong it felt like it was just an exercise for Spanish police to exert their authority and to keep up their hard reputation”

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