2023-09-09 13:50:31
“We have been relocated to safe areas.” The general director of Tourism of the Generalitat Valenciana, Esther Labaig, was on a private trip in Morocco when you have been surprised by earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale that has devastated the African country, leaving more than 800 dead so far.
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Esther was in the Palmeral, near Marrakech, when a large earthquake began to occur: “We were celebrating the wedding of some friends when, at the celebration dinner, the earthquake began to occur,” argues the general director of Tourism , who She feels “privileged” that the earthquake caught her on the outskirts of the city: “I think we were very lucky, also because at the time that situation occurred, we were in the hotel gardens.”
At that moment, and according to Esther Labaig, The first thing they did was run away from the building, which showed structural damage as a result of the earthquake. in the appearance of cracks and falling debris. “We are very afraid of the situation, but we have not suffered personal injuries, neither I nor the people who accompany me,” admits the general director of the Tourism area of the Valencian Community.
That the hotel was located on the outskirts of Marrakech, and that at the time of the earthquake they were in the gardens of the place, and not inside the hotel, makes Labaig consider herself “privileged” and that “thank God we can tell it.” Besides, appreciates the attention that the hotel staff has offered them: “We are well cared for, the hotel staff is behaving wonderfully well and they have relocated us to safer areas”. It also highlights that these same personnel agreed to work the morning after the earthquake “despite the fact that many will have experienced material and perhaps even personal losses.”
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With a flight scheduled for this Sunday, uOne of Labaig’s concerns lies in returning to Spain: “It seems that the airport is operational, so everything indicates that, if there are no aftershocks or external problems, we will be able to return with our flight without any impediment.”
Right now, the group with which the general director of Tourism was traveling He is confined inside the hotel, “but completely safely”, relocated to areas where not so much material damage has occurred. and regrouped to be able to spend the remaining night in Morocco.
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