STRAIGHT. Floods in Spain: at least 95 dead, three days of national mourning declared

Speaking to the France Bleu media, Jean Stellittano, national secretary of Secours populaire, stated that the association has launched an appeal for donations to raise funds to help the victims of the Spanish catastrophe.

“We are launching a call for mobilization throughout France. A call for donations so that we can quickly help our friends in Spain. We are going to release funds, we are in the process of seeing how we organize ourselves,” he said. .

“Above all, we must provide financial resources so that our partners can, on site, supply themselves and help affected populations,” he adds.

Although 95 deaths have already been recorded in southeastern Spain, this figure is expected to “increase”, the local government has warned as investigations continue in the Valencia region.

The president of the Valencian Community, Carlos Manzón, indicated on Wednesday afternoon that the emergency services had carried out “200 ground rescue operations and 70 aerial” with helicopters during the day, and that in principle there were no more survivors than rescue on the roofs. or roofs.

“There are no more urban centers that have not been inspected” and as telephone coverage is restored “people reported missing are reappearing,” he added during a press conference.

On BFMTV, a French woman tells what she experienced in the last few hours, after spending the night in an Ikea store while she was separated 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.

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.

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The President of the Republic expressed the “full solidarity” of France with Spain. These floods “affect us very deeply,” declared the French president on the sidelines of a state visit to Morocco.

“We have made help available in terms of civil security, relief and we will do everything that the rescuers consider useful on the spot,” he added in particular on BFMTV.

Hello and welcome to this live stream dedicated to the consequences of the bad weather that affected the southeast of Spain on Tuesday.

According to a final provisional report from the emergency services, and although in the afternoon the rescuers finished their inspection of the inhabited areas, at least 95 deaths have been recorded.

In detail, only in the Valencian Community, the most affected, 92 deaths were recorded. According to authorities, two other deaths were recorded in the neighboring region of Castilla-La Mancha and a third in Andalusia.