Christine Zamarreno will remember her visit to the Ikea store in Valencia. This French woman is still stuck in the business since Tuesday, October 29 at the end of the afternoon. The cause is the floods that have affected the southeast of Spain since the beginning of the week and have caused the death of at least 72 people, according to the latest report from lifeguards.
On BFMTV, this French woman talks about what she has experienced in the last few hours, after spending the night in the store while separating from her partner. “We received a message that we had to evacuate the cars from the ground floor and take them to the parking lot. My husband went down and let himself be carried away by the current. He spent much of the night hanging on the roof of the car, hanging from a lamppost.” , says.
“People on store roofs screaming for help”
For her part, Christine Zamarreno remained at Ikea. “The staff who brought out mattresses and blankets,” continues the Frenchwoman.
“We had to wait for the water to go down a little so that the men could go out with ropes to pick up the survivors. My husband was rescued by another company at 3 in the morning. “We were able to meet again this morning,” he says. the store.
The night was distressing for Christine Zamarreno, who explains that “it was really panic because the water rose to more than two meters.” “There were cars on alert, people on the roofs of stores shouting for help and, honestly, I haven’t seen any firefighters yet,” he worries. “I understood that there were catastrophic cities. So finally everything is fine in a tent. We have blankets, but soon we will run out of water.”
This Wednesday afternoon, the situation remains complex for the French woman and the customers next to her: “I think there is only one free way, there is no transportation, it is recommended not to leave the shopping center.”
Faced with this catastrophe, the Spanish government has declared three days of national mourning starting October 31. For his part, Emmanuel Macron declared that France has made “civil security” and “rescue” aid available to Spain.
Source: BFM TV
