“They try to enter houses pretending they are firefighters to steal and at night the army and the Civil Guard withdraw.” It’s Rosa’s cry for help, stuck in her house Paiporta since last Tuesday, the worst cold fall of the 21st century has devastated the Valencian city.
In a telephone conversation with ABC, Pink He regrets that the problem of insecurity is added to the drama they are experiencing at DANA Ground Zero. An anxiety that “increases especially at night”. Indeed, entire families are taking turns guarding their homes in the face of the increase in looting experienced by the municipality most affected by the downpour that swept the province of Valence.
As this newspaper reported, the National Police and the Civil Guard They have intensified surveillance, to the point that there are already 64 detained for attacking homes and businesses affected by DANA. The prosecution will ask for prison for all. Strong measures to try to stop the wave of thefts that have already devastated some of these criminals who tried to profit from the harm of others in prison.
Despite this, tension and fear among residents of municipalities like Paiporta There are more and more of them as the days go by. This is the case of Rosa, who, to the fear of being robbed, adds the effects that DANA has caused in her house and to which she receives no response: “We are still without drinking water or gas”.
In addition to the lack of basic necessities such as energy and insecurity, there are other serious problems for this population in the metropolitan area of Valence of nearly 30,000 inhabitants as well as that of mobility. This resident of the Valencian municipality regrets that “there are companies like my husband’s and many others who already asked them on Thursday to go to work, but in zone zero almost no one has a car and he there is no public transport.
After the disaster suffered, the next problem faced by those affected by DANA is economic. Pink He denounces that “the government says it will help but does not specify” while “the insurance companies are saturated”.
