Floods in Spain: One year later, Valencians are angry and hurt
On the occasion of the tribute paid on Wednesday to the 237 missing from the deadly floods of October 2024, the people of Valencia let their anger erupt against the president of the province, Carlos Mazon, accused of having neglected the disaster.
Valencia, Benetusser, Paiporta (Spain), special correspondent.
It took a downpour on Wednesday, exactly one year after the deadly floods that devastated the Valencia region of Spain, to disrupt the proceedings. As residents commemorated the tragedy, the rain began to fall just as two groups of people set off from opposite sides of the main street in Benetusser, one of the hardest-hit towns.
It's impossible to miss here. Tagged on crumbling walls and subway steps, in red letters on a t-shirt or a sign. In everyone's minds, "8:11 p.m. Neither forgotten nor forgiven." This is the main slogan of the victims of the Dana (an isolated high-altitude depression) . The time on October 29, 2024, when provincial authorities issued the alert, which blared on residents' cell phones by the time the mudslide had already swept away dozens.
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