Spanish anti-tourist yobs scream ‘go home’ in dramatic clash with cycling holidaymakers… who reply with ‘f**k you’ chant

THIS is the shocking moment locals scream “go home” at a group of holidaymakers in the latest anti-tourist clash in Spain.

Spaniards can be heard shouting at a group of Dutch tourists who are doing a cycling tour through the streets of Valencia.

The event took place on Calle Danzas, ValenciaCredit: Solarpix

The group of tourists refused to slow down or dismountCredit: Solarpix

They can be heard shouting “Fuera, Fuera” – which means “go home “.

The two parties appear to come to blows on Calle Danzas which is located in Valencia’s Old Town.

Amidst all the pushing and shoving a bike falls to the ground, while one of the cyclists – on the verge of tears – watches the ordeal unfold from a safe distance.

When the Dutch tourists finally make their getaway, they can be heard shouting “f**k you” while shaking their fists in the air at their aggressors.

And this is not an isolated incident.

Instead, it forms part of a growing number of protests against mass tourism in Spain over the past few months.

Some of which ended with protestors insulting holidaymakers, whilst others resulted in tourists being sprayed with water pistols.

A Valencia-based organisation which translates to “Neighbourhood in Danger of Extinction” claimed that the incident occurred because the cyclists wanted to cross an area where an event was taking place.

The organisation claimed that the group refused to dismount or even slow down.

The organisation went on to admit shouting “Tourists go home” but claimed that it was the holidaymakers who escalated things further.

As part of a renewed assault on mass-tourism, a spokesman said: “The residents of Valencia and of the Old Town in particular, are anxious and desperate in the face of touristification and speculation that saturate the neighbourhoods and expel people from their homes.”

“The large real estate investment funds and tour operators have become the masters of the city and governments are doing nothing to prevent it or to protect the residents.”

He went on to say: “Beyond this incident, the real violence that exists in the Old Town and many other neighbourhoods in Valencia, is the expulsion from the neighbourhood through violent evictions by the police and the parapolice, the daily saturation of public spaces, the inability to rest at home due to the noise in the street or tourist apartments, the commercialisation of neighbourhoods and rising prices and the persecution of radicalised and vulnerable people.”

“For all these reasons, we in the neighbourhood denounce the attempt to criminalise the neighbourhood and housing struggle that has arisen after Sunday’s incident.”

“The least tourists can do is respect the protests and be aware of how their leisure activities can have a detrimental effect on our lives.

“Because this is not happening, we say loudly, ‘Tourists go home!'”

The incident forms part of a growing movement against mass tourism in SpainCredit: Solarpix

Other protests have taken place around the countryCredit: Solarpix

An English-speaking former resident described what happened as “unfortunate.”

He wrote online: “I loved the city while I was there. Nobody treated me like this.”

“My dream was to return to do a Master’s degree at the university and at the same time carry on improving my Spanish.”

“I just wanted to live simply and with respect towards other people. But if things are like this, I don’t know anymore what to think.”

Another former resident added: ” I can’t believe this has happened to Valencia. What a disappointment the city I lived in.”

“Are we going to let go of our egos? This creates a terrible image for Valencians.”

However, Spaniard Manel Marquez, a radio founder who describes himself as an “anti-capitalist and ecologist,” said: ” The tourists, basically the Dutch, don’t respect pedestrians in Valencia.”

“This is not Rotterdam and you can’t cycle anywhere you want.”

This is one in a long line of protests against mass tourism that have taken place in Spain over the past couple of years.

In April, graffiti was sprayed in English on walls and bench in Palm Mar in Southern Tenerife at the start of April last year.

Slogans included “My misery your paradise” and “Average salary in Canary Islands is 1,200 Euros.”

It solicited several English responses include: “F*** off, we pay your wages.”

In a similar vein, many thousands of people in the Canary Islands took to the streets to demand that politicians deal with the lack of affordable housing and rising pollution.

Both of which have been linked to growing numbers of holidaymakers.

What’s more, last October, demonstrators took to a beach in Tenerife and surrounded holidaymakers while they relaxed in their swimwear.

This incident took place after several hundred protestors broke way from the main protest along the seafront in Playa de las Americas, and took to Troya Beach instead.

In Barcelona, tourists were targeted with water pistols while other demonstrations took place in San Sebastian, Granada, Palma.

Police were forced to move in to dispel protestors who held up placards reading: “As You Come I Have To Go.”

In the aftermath of the protests, the Balearic Islands Government vice-president, Antoni Costa, said that their behaviour had been “unacceptable.”

Businesses took aim at protestors, blaming them for dips in their revenue, while many restaurants and bars claimed tourists had been scared away.

Local businesses are suffering the negative effects of the protestsCredit: Solarpix

Tourist and locals exchanged expletives throughout the ordealCredit: Solarpix