Residents of the Valencian Community are demanding more resources from the government to combat the tragedy caused by the devastating DANA. It was only yesterday that 500 more troops were sent to help salvage and debris removal work. Any help is minimal, but we now know that Spain rejected France’s help.
Bruno Retailleau, French Minister of the Interior, admitted during an interview that as soon as he learned of the tragedy, he proposed to his Spanish counterpart, that is to say the minister Fernando Grande Marlaskasending 200 firefighters to help with the disaster: “I offered him help, I offered him reinforcements and I told him that at any time we had the means to send 200 firefighters.”
Maslaska’s answer was “no.”. And all this in the midst of the controversy over the lack of State involvement in aid to the Valencian Community. Retailleau explained that the Spanish minister responded that “for the moment it is not necessary” because they have “their own resources and the army is mobilized.”
The video containing the French Interior Minister’s statement is spreading like wildfire. THE the criticisms are increasing and people are wondering how we can refuse aid when it is so necessary in the Valencian Community.
Valencia is overflowing with volunteers
On the contrary, thousands of Valencian citizens are traveling on foot as volunteers to help the villages affected by DANA, in the metropolitan area that surrounds the provincial capital. People who decided to go on pilgrimage took with them buckets, shovels, brooms, mops, water jugs and food carts. The journey they had to travel on foot in some cases exceeded 10 kilometers.
The Emergency Service of the Generalitat Valenciana expressed its “deep gratitude to the population” for “the help it provides to the affected populations”. He nevertheless asked citizens not to travel by car: “Please do not travel with vehicles, even to help the areas affected by DANA“. “Delays are occurring, access roads are collapsing and emergency services are struggling to do their jobs,” he stressed. “Thank you for your understanding and solidarity,” concluded the 112 emergency service. The most affected towns were especially those of Sedaví, Alfafar, Paiporta, Picanya, Albal and Catarroja.
One of the tasks that these spontaneously organized neighbors accomplished was the traffic organization on the pedestrian bridge that crosses the V-30 motorway and the new Turia River canal, which helped avoid an even more serious tragedy in the capital.
