The brutal consequences of DANA in Valenciawich leaves at least 222 dead and thousands and thousands affected, and the political battle that broke out over the management of the emergency, have left in the background a fact that is challenging to refute: the massive alarm to warn the population of the impending flood, he arrived too late.
Just a month later, at 8.11pm on November 29ththe jarring beep rang across many Valencian phones,sparking distressing memories of that night. On this occasion it was not the Civil Protection who broadcast, but hundreds of people who voluntarily played it on thier cell phones in protest at the delay.
It was the culmination of the concentration organized this Friday in dozens of municipalities in the Valencian Community, affected or not by the dana, to once again demand political responsibilities from the president Carlos mazon. The organizers are the same entities that promoted the large exhibition that brought together 130,000 people in Valencia on November 9th. under the motto ”Mazón resignation”. This Saturday at 6pm they will return to the streets of Cap-i-Casal.
This Friday’s event kept the reason for the protest unchanged, demonstrating that the participants do not have too many doubts about who was responsible for raising the alarm. THE shouts of “resign Mazón” and “president Picassent”, They were once again the most sung. The influx in Valencia, where several hundred people gathered, was much more modest than that recorded in the first major march three weeks ago, which is to be expected given that on this occasion the events take place in a decentralized way.
Concentration was originally called in Manises square, in front of the government Palace, but ultimately took place in the plaza de la Virgen and amid heavy security. The government delegation denied this enclave after the incidents recorded in the previous protest and the vandalism of the building that houses the headquarters of the regional government.
The chants against Mazón lead to a wait until 8.11pm, when That “painful sound” began to thunder, in the words of the organisation’s spokesperson, Beatriu Cardona, who denounced that “it should have arrived much earlier”.
Afterward it was observed a minute of silence which silenced the Plaza de la Virgenbroken only by the final applause. Instantly afterwards, over the loudspeaker, the 29 municipalities in which deaths were found were listed one by one. Paiporta, 45. catarroja, 25. Valencia, 17. Torrent, 11. Picanya, 10.