King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia This Sunday they visited the areas of Valencia affected by the floods that left 217 dead throughout the country so far. The monarchs were received with insults by the residents of the area, who repudiated their presence by throwing mud at them, in the midst of struggles with the security that escorted the figures of Spanish royalty.
Felipe VI and Letizia They had a bad reception from the inhabitants, who rebuked them with shouts of “get out” while throwing mud at them.
Floods in Spain: insults and throwing mud upon the arrival of King Felipe VI and Queen Letiza
Numerous indignant people have greeted the procession with insults, calling them “murderers”, and have confronted it, while both the king and the queen have tried to mediate with young people who have approached them.
“The Kings visit the advanced command post in Paiporta”, a particularly hard-hit municipality of 27,000 inhabitants west of the city of Valencia, the Royal House reported on the social network X about this visit in which the monarchs are accompanied by the president. of the government, Pedro Sánchez.
During their visit, the kings met for just over an hour with the different bodies that are participating in addressing this emergency, and upon leaving they greeted personnel displaced there, such as members of the UME, Red Cross, Police and Civil Guard. , and they have seen vans loaded with material aid, as reported by La Sexta.
According to the Spanish press, the visit will continue in Chiva, a town of 17,000 residents also very damaged, near the city of Valencia.
The situation due to floods in Spain
Meanwhile, the toll of victims in Spain rose from 213 to 217 with the announcement of the discovery of three more dead in Pedralba, Valencia, and of an elderly woman in Letur, in the neighboring region of Castilla-La Mancha, whose body was dragged away. 12 km through the waters. To them we must add one death in Andalusia, but practically all of the deaths -213- occurred in Valencia.
Among the dead are foreigners, two of them Chinese citizens, according to what the Chinese embassy in Spain told the official Xinhua agency.
Red weather alert in Spain: the weather forecast for Valencia
The Valencian coast is once again on orange alert – the second highest – due to heavy rains, reported the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
“There will be locally very strong and persistent showers, including in the areas already affected by the floods of October 29,” explained Rubén del Campo, Aemet spokesperson, in a message broadcast on the agency’s Telegram channel.
The agency decreed the red alert – the highest – further south, in the region of Andalusia, specifically in the province of Almería.
Amid criticism from the population of the slow pace of clearing debris, distributing aid and recovering bodies from piled up parking lots and cars, Sánchez announced on Saturday the sending of 5,000 additional soldiers to the region, which would bring its total strength to 7,500 troops, the largest deployment of armed forces ever carried out in Spain “in times of peace”, according to him.
The National Police announced the arrest of another 20 people for looting, which would bring the total of those arrested for this crime to one hundred since Tuesday.
However, given the threat of new rains, the authorities asked that this Sunday not come to help and restricted those who will be able to access the area to 2,000.
Source: Ambito
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