Once again they took to the streets to shout their anger. Several thousand people gathered this Saturday afternoon in Valencia to protest against the authorities’ management of the floods at the end of October in Spain, which left 230 dead, AFP confirmed on the spot.
Shouting “Mazón, resignation”, in reference to the conservative president of the Valencian Community, Carlos Mazón, the march started from the Town Hall square.
“Your negligence is our misfortune” and “Valencia, we are all”, could be read on the banners of this demonstration called by local and union organizations.
“Many incompetent people (…) continue to get paid”
“What went wrong? Incompetence. That’s why we are here, because there are many incompetent people who continue to get paid,” Raquel Ferrandis, a 55-year-old teacher from Paiporta, the town considered the epicenter, told AFP. of the disaster.
The torrential rains on October 29 caused a total of 230 deaths, 222 of them in the Valencian Community alone, and four missing, in addition to material damage estimated at several million euros.
A few days later, 130,000 people demonstrated on November 9 in Spain’s third largest city to demand the resignation of Carlos Mazón and denounce the management of the emergency by the central government of socialist Pedro Sánchez.
In Spain, a highly decentralized country, disaster management is the responsibility of the regions, but the central government can provide resources and even assume emergency responsibility in extreme cases.
The victims criticize the regional executive for not having warned residents sufficiently in advance of the danger of the torrential rains that began on the morning of the fateful Tuesday. And for having delayed the deployment of aid in more than 70 municipalities.
Source: BFM TV
