Alterations in Valencia during the protest against the Real Estate Summit 2026

Some 6,000 protesters, according to the Government Delegation, attended today to the call of the Tenants' Union in Valencia, which ended with altercations, five detainees and nine injured police officers, one of them, the head of the unit, with an arm broken by the throwing of a fence, as official sources have confirmed to El Mundo.

At 11:00 a.m. they were gathered at the Porta de La Mar and walked the 600 meters that separate that point of the city from the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, where the real estate investment congress Real Estate Summit 2026 is being held, with leading figures in the sector such as Toni Nadal, Albert Rivera and Juan Ramón Rallo.

With cries of 'shame', and accompanied by representatives of the main unions, the column of protesters reached the Palau, broke the police cordon by throwing fences and some people entered the Palau, which caused the National Police to shoot rubber bullets into the air.

There were moments of tension until the police managed to contain the radicals who broke the cordon. About twenty people entered the Palau and, from one of its balconies, waved a republican flag.

Meanwhile, the demonstration has divided. Those who have come peacefully have distanced themselves from the riots and the police action, which has thrown rubber balls, smoke canisters and gases into the air at the assailants, trying to keep them away from the security perimeter. Nine National Police officers have been injured in the altercations and the five arrested have been injured due to the throwing of fireworks, paving stones and fences against the police cordon.

After the concentration was dissolved, criticism of the Government delegation began. "The images of the National Police charging against protesters with batons and pepper spray are regrettable. There were also families with boys and girls, people who just wanted to make their voices heard. The Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, has to decide whether she is with the protesters or with the speculators whom the police defended in such a violent and disproportionate way. A real estate convention shielded behind a riot cordon, while outside there are those who claim to be able to pay rent, says everything about the priorities of whoever is in charge. We demand that it be clarified who ordered the loading and with what criteria," claimed the spokesperson for Compromís in the Valencia City Council, Papi Robles.

Podemos has joined these criticisms, which has already registered five questions in Congress to the Minister of the Interior about the police charges. The general secretary, Ione Belarra, signs this petition in which she wants to know who the political or police authority was that gave the direct order to charge, how many projectiles/rubber balls and how many canisters or tear/irritant gas devices were used, if they have proof of the total number of people injured as a result of the police charges and the effect of the gases, if they have contacted the affected people and if all the agents were identified.

The Government delegation explains that it was a reactive action in response to the attempted assault that, violently, broke the police cordon.

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