- Resident of the Spanish community of Paiporta threw mud at the president of the Spanish government and Felipe and Letizia de Borbón, kings of Spain | Main photo: EFE
Citizens of Paiporta, a municipality of the Valencian community in Spain, threw mud and expressed insults on Sunday, November 3, against the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez; Felipe and Letizia de Borbón, kings of Spain; and Carlos Mazón, president of the Generalitat of Valencia, after his visit to the areas affected by isolated depression at high levels (DANA).
Dozens of people greeted the procession with shouts of “get out” and threw mud during their visit to the town of Paiporta, the epicenter of the storm that hit the province of Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast, last Tuesday.
Attack against Pedro Sánchez and the kings of Spain
Hundreds of volunteers and neighbors interrupted the cleaning tasks of the streets and basements when they saw the procession arrive with repeated shouts of “out, out” and the throwing of mud and mud, which reached the kings and the rest of the authorities, in a town that suffered the loss of at least 62 people to the floods.
At the beginning of the visit and amid cries of “murderers”, a broomstick or shovel was seen falling next to the area where President Sánchez was and, from that moment on, he was surrounded by his security team as he grew the tumult and part of the security device opened umbrellas to protect the procession from the mud and stones thrown by the neighbors.
The volunteers confronted the king and the rest of the politicians, and the kings stopped to talk to some of those affected, with the purpose of calming them down.
While they were trying to establish a security cordon around the king and the president of the government, a cavalry unit from the police force intervened to drive away the most exalted.
Again under the threat of rain
Valencia is the region hardest hit by the effects of the storm, with 214 fatalities and continues to focus on cleaning streets, homes, shops and garages, with more machinery, Army troops and help from other communities, but again under the threat of more rain.
The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has an orange and yellow alert in various parts of the region, where up to 100 liters per square meter could be collected in twelve hours.
Even so, thousands of professional troops and volunteers – today with restrictions – once again became protagonists of the wave of solidarity, focusing their efforts on removing mud, delivering food and basic necessities, and searching for of the missing.
Another focus of the day is on a shopping center in the vicinity of the town of Aldaia, affected by the tragedy. In its underground parking lot, the Military Emergency Unit (UME) continues to extract water, because there could be more deaths there; Tonight they hope to be able to visit the place.
As explained by a spokesperson for the UME, since Wednesday, October 30, teams have been deployed extracting water and mud from this shopping center, but there is still one and a half meters of water in the parking lot and it is unknown how many vehicles and people can be found.
The other focus of Sunday, November 3, is on the volunteers. Thousands of people, as happened the previous days, went to the municipalities near Valencia affected by the floods to continue with the cleaning work, despite the prohibition decreed by the regional government of Valencia (Spain) to guarantee mobility. of all essential services.
But dressed in cleaning utensils, they set off along the shoulders.
Today the lifeless body of a 70-year-old woman was also found in Letur, Albacete, who disappeared on Tuesday swept away by the flood next to part of her home, bringing the number of victims to three in the region of Castilla. La Mancha and one more in Andalusia, bringing the total to 217 throughout Spain.
With information from EFE
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