Thousands of people have challenged the rain this Saturday and Valencia to claim the resignation of the president of the Generalitat, for the management of the DANA and to demonstrate that citizens “do not forget the victims” of the floods of October 29, that caused 224 dead, three missing and two workers who died in cleaning tasks in the province of Valencia. It is organized with the same purposes in the last three months.
Under a swarm of umbrella that move slowly, Dolores cries out for justice. “I only ask for justice for them, that they have taken them away and it was the best thing,” he says in a crisp, carrying the images of her husband and two children who died in the catastrophe. Beside him, Aitana, a young student also of Catarroja, regrets the loss of her grandfather drowned and asks for responsibilities. Both hold the banner that opens the demonstration and runs through the center of the city and in which “Mazón resisted” can be read.
It is the most repeated cry, as in the previous manifestations. The influx is significantly that they attended the first on November 9 and about 100,000 and 80,000 of the following (according to the estimates of the Government Delegation), but people have responded to the call in a high number, despite a not intense but persistent rain during much of the tour, which has left from the town hall square to end in the Plaza de la Virgen.
Organized by more than 200 civil and social entities and of unions, the majority of the left, in this fourth demonstration against Mazón and the Consell has had special prominence the cultural and educational sector, students, teachers and parents of schools damaged by the DANA. Montse, a professor in Picanya, criticizes that 90 days later there is no normality in many schools, that some students are still giving telematic classes or that many facilities cannot be used. “Sense Pati, there is no child” (“Without a patio there is no childhood”), several banners point out. The Minister of Education, José Antonio Rovira, is the center of resignation requests, after the Chief of the Consell.
The Muixeranga of Algemesí, one of the affected peoples, precedes the march, from time to time to form its popular human towers. Anna Rosa is 29 years old and is the president of this group. “In Algemesí there is still a lot of mud, there are still firefighters and the army working so that everything returns to normal,” he explains. “We ask Mazón’s resignation, as shame, and ask forgiveness,” “I think the cultural sector will be the most damaged after the Dana. The little money that was given to culture, I don’t know if they will find it again that there are more important things, ”he laments. The president of the Colla, Raúl Sanchis, adds that there will be no normality until everything is again as before and the Valencian president assumes his responsibility for being absent for hours of the emergency center on the day of the fateful Dana. Critical references in your long food in a restaurant that day have been repeated.
Carmen Rodríguez is an affected neighbor of the Valencian district of La Torre. “My children and grandchildren have been in my house for three months because they lost their own, which was a ground floor,” he explains. She is also considered affected because “we have changed our lives to all.” This 69 -year -old woman explains that she has only received “some aid. “We are missing, we are halfway,” he adds. “In our neighborhood there are many people with very little purchasing level that still cannot enter their home, because they have not received aid,” he denounces.
Negligence
The representative of La Muixeranga de Algemesí Blanca and the teacher Montse have been in charge of reading the manifesto in which they have demanded the resignation of the mazón and have criticized the “lack of housing alternative” for those affected, that the workers included in the ERTE “They are not charging 100 percent of the salary”, as well as that “the negligence of all the companies that endangered their workers has not yet been investigated.” Likewise, they have denounced the “neglect” by the Ministry of Education to the affected educational centers, the “delay” in the aid to culture and the “lack of a strategic plan”, among other criticisms.
Hours before the demonstration, Mazón has expressed “all respect, support and closeness for all the people who feel pain.” “I do not have the same respect or closeness for those who try to take advantage of the pain to make politics and take out a few votes,” he said, during his visit to the Private Court of Water of Orihuela (Alicante).
