It would be blind to deny the existence of neighborhood disturbances, and more than justified. But let’s not be so naive as to believe that everything is spontaneous despair while the crème de la crème of deception, drunkenness and anti-politics, including the most violent far right, camp in the neighborhood for five days.
They expected rescue teams, firefighters, soldiers, excavators and essential goods to arrive on their devastated streets, and none of this: those who appeared on the streets of the most affected Valencian towns, from the first hours, it was not the UME but Alvise. and Desokupa, Negre and his pseudo-journalists, Iker Jiménez and Ana Rosa, the propagators of hoaxes against the government or against immigrants, the Holocaust deniers, various neo-Nazi groups and the fachatubers. None are missing, they are all in Valencia.
The neighbors have every reason to be desperate and angry, to boo an official delegation that brings nothing and only gets in the way, or even to throw harmless and symbolic mud at the immaculate people who walk without much sense in their streets. It would be blind to deny that the unrest exists, since the scale of the disaster is in itself ungovernable, and the errors and poor coordination of the different administrations in the first days add up, and the general overflow. But let’s not be so naive as to believe that everything is spontaneous despair when the cream of the crop hoaxes, drunkenness, journalistic sensationalism, anti-politics and the extreme right, including the most violent extreme right, have been camped in the area for five days.
To all those in the first paragraph, we must add the “all in one” campaign of those who, on television, on talk shows, on the radio and in newspapers, have already decided to distribute the faults and repeat the same slogans: the failing state, the inhibition of the government, the president ignores it, the Valencians are abandoned, the fault lies with AEMET… And without forgetting Feijóo, the earliest of them in the region, already marking messages from the first hour.
DANA has already destroyed several hundred lives and thousands of homes, businesses and infrastructure, but some are betting that it will also overthrow the Sánchez government. And in their aggressive and manipulative campaign, by pouring gasoline on such flammable ground as this, with a very high emotional temperature (not just of the victims, of the country as a whole), they can destroy democracy.
What happened this Sunday in Paiporta was a citizen protest, yes, and full of reason. But it was also an attempted lynching by the authorities, and in particular the president of the government, with people kicking and hitting one of his cars, and justified in the media and the networks which broadcast the slogan “the president is fleeing”, “Sánchez leaves thrown to the kings”, “flee like a rat”; the same which for years have questioned his legitimacy or qualified him as an autocrat and a Sanchist regime , or who predicted that he would end up hanging upside down. And they won’t stop until they do.
The priority today is to help the victims of DANA, those who need help, those who have lost everything, those who continue to search for their missing. Every effort should be put into it, without a doubt. But be careful that emergency situations do not make us neglect this other flow of hatred and manipulation whose destruction we will all pay for.
