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First round against mega-petardos in Valencia: surveillance in tourist apartments, European cars and the Turia garden
The Police intensify patrols in the face of the risk of illegal pyrotechnics in the 'super falla weekend' and gunpowder fans warn on networks: "It's going to be the game of the cat and the mouse"
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"This weekend is going to be intense." A policeman stationed in a night group in the city of Valencia recognises him openly. The two days of the 'super fallero weekend' is presented with a high intensity in one of the aspects that most worries the Local and National Police in recent years: the danger of megafirecrackers and the incidence of illegal pyrotechnics during the Fallas. The operation of both bodies has been reinforced for this Saturday and Sunday, as police sources have confirmed to LAS PROVINCIAS. And also the intention of gunpowder fans to explode homemade artefacts: "It's going to be the cat and mouse game in Valencia."
This notice is launched by Pyroduohagen, a German fan who defines himself on the networks as a 'content creator with priotechnics' and who accumulates more than 20,000 followers on each of his Instagram and YouTube profiles. He does it with a post on one of his platforms that he accompanies with a video of the last holidays in Valencia. In the images you can see a group of European tourists throwing a carcass in the garden of the Turia las past Fallas. And everything indicates that many of these fans of illegal pyrotechnics will repeat the scenes and then broadcast the videos on the internet. The audiovisual loot of a risky practice that in 2024 made a young man lose part of his hand when a homemade firecracker exploded.
"Handmade Tracas". That's what the German YouTuber emphasises in another 'post' on his social networks. Precisely the main desire of the groups looking for secluded places in Valencia to launch their pyrotechnic artefacts. The Turia garden is one of the scenarios in which the Police will patrol intensely during these days. We must not forget the threat that in forums like Feuerwerk.net and Vuurwerkcrew.nl launched one of these fans, as LAS PROVINCIAS already published: "Vamos a demoliser el Palau" (referring supposedly and it is expected that in an ironic way to the Palau de la Música).
The fear of the Security Forces is that surveillance in the old channel will move uncontrolled explosions to other points. The environment of the old Formula 1 circuit, the port or the Navy are other areas where these groups usually meet.
The eyes of the agents in Valencia will be focussed on other points: the tourist apartments. These apartments are usually the destination chosen by this type of tourist. Germans, the Netherlands and Belgians are the ones who get carried away by the desire to light illicit wicks. These types of tourists stay more in apartments than in hotels. In these houses they even look for those that have terraces, as you can see some internet forums, to have a private place and away from the eyes of the Security Forces.
It will not be the only centre of attention of the patrols. There is another aspect that they will control a lot, especially during the weekend: the license plates of the cars. Passenger cars of European origin, especially Germany, Belgium or the Netherlands, will be specially controlled by the police. Many of them will be stoppy to the agents for the possible presence of pyrotechnic material in the trunks.
As LAS PROVINCIAS reported last week, the Security Forces also intensively monitor internet forums to dectate launch points or meetups. As published by this newspaper, in one of these forums, Vuurwerkcrew, another pyrotechnics afficionado asks about places to buy firecrackers in Valencia. "Where can I buy them? I don't want to deal with the police...", he says.
In fact, there is a fear between the Netherlands and Spanish authorities. In the European country, pyrotechnics have been banned since last January 1. They can only shoot it professionally and in organised shows. The veto of citizens is total. Obviously when every New Year's Eve in recent years in the Netherlands ends with endless incidents. An example: at New Year's End 2023, 1,200 injuries were reported from the launch of firecrackers.
Last year was already the 'war' in many points of the Fallas. It was also reported by LAS PROVINCIAS. Those responsible for the homemade megafirecrackers were exhibited in videos spread on social networks or YouTube by accounts such as 'Mr Pyro Manager' or 'Street Fire Worker'. In the recordings they showed the closest thing to bombs. That is the case of an artefact launched at the holidays and whose managers take out their chest for their power. 4.2 kilos, as can be read in the subtitles printed in the video.
The artefact was a kind of barrel of fuel manipulated so that it has a spike in its upper part that acts as a wick. The vandals threw him in the Turia gardens, at the height of Jacinto Benavente. The detonation left a rain of sparks almost 20 metres around and a cloud of smoke that exceeds 10 metres high, as the video showed.
The 4.2 kilos is not a trivial figure. The most forceful firecrackers that are launched in any mascletà of the big party of the city do not exceed 200 grams. These artefacts have a load and power 20 times higher than the legal and controlled ones that are fired at noon in the Town Hall Square.
The Police intensify patrols in the face of the risk of illegal pyrotechnics in the 'super falla weekend' and gunpowder fans warn on networks: "It's going to be the game of the cat and the mouse"
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"This weekend is going to be intense." A policeman stationed in a night group in the city of Valencia recognises him openly. The two days of the 'super fallero weekend' is presented with a high intensity in one of the aspects that most worries the Local and National Police in recent years: the danger of megafirecrackers and the incidence of illegal pyrotechnics during the Fallas. The operation of both bodies has been reinforced for this Saturday and Sunday, as police sources have confirmed to LAS PROVINCIAS. And also the intention of gunpowder fans to explode homemade artefacts: "It's going to be the cat and mouse game in Valencia."
This notice is launched by Pyroduohagen, a German fan who defines himself on the networks as a 'content creator with priotechnics' and who accumulates more than 20,000 followers on each of his Instagram and YouTube profiles. He does it with a post on one of his platforms that he accompanies with a video of the last holidays in Valencia. In the images you can see a group of European tourists throwing a carcass in the garden of the Turia las past Fallas. And everything indicates that many of these fans of illegal pyrotechnics will repeat the scenes and then broadcast the videos on the internet. The audiovisual loot of a risky practice that in 2024 made a young man lose part of his hand when a homemade firecracker exploded.
"Handmade Tracas". That's what the German YouTuber emphasises in another 'post' on his social networks. Precisely the main desire of the groups looking for secluded places in Valencia to launch their pyrotechnic artefacts. The Turia garden is one of the scenarios in which the Police will patrol intensely during these days. We must not forget the threat that in forums like Feuerwerk.net and Vuurwerkcrew.nl launched one of these fans, as LAS PROVINCIAS already published: "Vamos a demoliser el Palau" (referring supposedly and it is expected that in an ironic way to the Palau de la Música).
The fear of the Security Forces is that surveillance in the old channel will move uncontrolled explosions to other points. The environment of the old Formula 1 circuit, the port or the Navy are other areas where these groups usually meet.
The eyes of the agents in Valencia will be focussed on other points: the tourist apartments. These apartments are usually the destination chosen by this type of tourist. Germans, the Netherlands and Belgians are the ones who get carried away by the desire to light illicit wicks. These types of tourists stay more in apartments than in hotels. In these houses they even look for those that have terraces, as you can see some internet forums, to have a private place and away from the eyes of the Security Forces.
It will not be the only centre of attention of the patrols. There is another aspect that they will control a lot, especially during the weekend: the license plates of the cars. Passenger cars of European origin, especially Germany, Belgium or the Netherlands, will be specially controlled by the police. Many of them will be stoppy to the agents for the possible presence of pyrotechnic material in the trunks.
As LAS PROVINCIAS reported last week, the Security Forces also intensively monitor internet forums to dectate launch points or meetups. As published by this newspaper, in one of these forums, Vuurwerkcrew, another pyrotechnics afficionado asks about places to buy firecrackers in Valencia. "Where can I buy them? I don't want to deal with the police...", he says.
In fact, there is a fear between the Netherlands and Spanish authorities. In the European country, pyrotechnics have been banned since last January 1. They can only shoot it professionally and in organised shows. The veto of citizens is total. Obviously when every New Year's Eve in recent years in the Netherlands ends with endless incidents. An example: at New Year's End 2023, 1,200 injuries were reported from the launch of firecrackers.
Last year was already the 'war' in many points of the Fallas. It was also reported by LAS PROVINCIAS. Those responsible for the homemade megafirecrackers were exhibited in videos spread on social networks or YouTube by accounts such as 'Mr Pyro Manager' or 'Street Fire Worker'. In the recordings they showed the closest thing to bombs. That is the case of an artefact launched at the holidays and whose managers take out their chest for their power. 4.2 kilos, as can be read in the subtitles printed in the video.
The artefact was a kind of barrel of fuel manipulated so that it has a spike in its upper part that acts as a wick. The vandals threw him in the Turia gardens, at the height of Jacinto Benavente. The detonation left a rain of sparks almost 20 metres around and a cloud of smoke that exceeds 10 metres high, as the video showed.
The 4.2 kilos is not a trivial figure. The most forceful firecrackers that are launched in any mascletà of the big party of the city do not exceed 200 grams. These artefacts have a load and power 20 times higher than the legal and controlled ones that are fired at noon in the Town Hall Square.
