Demonstrations in Valencia protesting how the deadly flood was handled + video
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According to the reports, the number of protesters in Valencia is estimated at around 130 thousand people. Some protesters shouted “Murderers!” Killers!” Headed and some others with placards in their hands rushed to the mayor of Valencia as well as Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister of Spain.
Residents of the region of Spain, which has suffered the heaviest damage in decades, are angry about the lack of warning and information from the authorities, with some insisting that the official flood warnings when sent to the phones It was sent with the people that the flood had taken the cars with it.
Also, the reaction of the authorities after the flood, which overshadowed about 80 cities and residential areas, has also provoked the anger of the protesters.
In this demonstration, the police clashed with the angry protesters, and the AFP reporter, as an eyewitness, captured the images of some of these clashes. Some protesters criticized Carlos Mazon, the 50-year-old mayor of Valencia, with harsh and sometimes rude words. Mazon is a member of the right-wing opposition movement called “People’s Party”.
Mazon was also one of the figures who was the target of mud-throwing by angry protesters last week. In those protests, King Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Letizia were not spared from throwing flowers and stones.