Kings Felipe VI and Letizia arrived in the town of Paiporta, known as “ground zero” of the storm that devastated Valencia last Tuesday, and where water and mud continue to be removed from each home. They were accompanied by the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the regional president of Valencia, Carlos Mazón, with whom they toured one of the areas most affected by the storm.
With shouts of ‘get out’ and a “rain” of mud, the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the regional president of Valencia, Carlos Mazón, welcomed the delegation of the kings of Spain upon their arrival in Paiporta, the epicenter of the innunciations that devastated that province on Tuesday.
This Sunday, November 3, numerous indignant people greeted the procession with insults and confronted it, while both King Felipe and Queen Letizia tried to mediate with young people who approached them in a town where there have been at least 62 deaths due to the floods, which caused 213 deaths in the province, as well as an undetermined number of missing people in the largest natural disaster in Spain so far this century.
Felipe VI and Letizia arrived in the town of Paiporta, known as “ground zero” of the storm that devastated Valencia last Tuesday, and where water, mud and mud continue to be removed from each home.
The kings were accompanied by the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the regional president of Valencia, Carlos Mazón, with whom they toured one of the areas most affected by the storm, the most serious that Spain has experienced since the last century, which has caused more than 200 deaths and a still undetermined number of missing people, in addition to enormous material damage.
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The visit of the monarch and his wife occurs on a Sunday where the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has established the orange level warning (significant risk of rain with strong storms) on the coast of the province of Valencia and the coast and interior north of the neighboring province of Castellón due to rainfall that could accumulate 100 liters per square meter in twelve hours.
Although the initial idea was to go first to the Emergency Coordination Center (Cecopi), the kings went directly to Paiporta, to the advanced command post, before heading towards the town of Chiva to see first-hand the magnitude of the tragedy and accompany those affected.
In Paiporta, where at least 62 people have died, the kings learned about the last hour of the rescue tasks and recovery of basic supplies after the floods.
In that town, near Valencia, last Tuesday the storm dumped a huge amount of rain, which completely overflowed the ravine that runs through the town.
The king and the president speak out
After the events recorded in Valencia, the king of Spain assured that we must understand “the anger and frustration” expressed by many people due to “how badly their inhabitants have had it” and the difficulty of understanding how the mechanisms to care work. emergencies.
He pointed out that it is necessary to give “hope” to all those affected by the tragedy and “care for them in the emergency,” but we must also guarantee the presence of the State at this time.
For his part, President Sánchez rejected the actions of violence and asserted that the Executive will not deviate from the main objective, which is to save lives and recover the bodies of those who died due to the storm.
Later, at night, protests occurred in Madrid against the Sánchez government, according to users on social networks.
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