“I had a moment to let off steam with the King, I took advantage of it. I brought out everything I had in me and I managed to cry and let off steam,” says Pau Oliver, 16, seeing yesterday’s ABC cover, which immortalized this moment.
A few meters from where the image was taken, Pau claims he was there only because he knew Felipe VI was going. “I came because I wanted to send a clear message that we need help. This is why I am here and I think it was very clear,” he emphasizes, before sharing the brief conversation he had with the king: “I told him that we had need help, we’ve been four days where people are still dying and we just want help. He told me it was a disaster, that they were trying to do their best and they couldn’t do it in the way and at the speed we wanted. That this cannot happen as quickly as we would like. And there, you are absolutely right. It is a disaster and nothing can be done“.
He says that he also cried “before speaking to the King” because “everything is very sad”, DANA’s misfortune and the way of receiving the Kings on Sunday. “It seemed a shame to me that mud was thrown at the king and Pedro Sánchez shit himself. “Yes, it’s true that if he stayed here, they could have done him a lot of harm,” said Pau, who above all understands “people’s anger.” “I was scared. I was quite scared“, he admits.
“I understand that they are very angry here because people are afraid. People continue to die and we don’t know what to do. Here, there are people who have lost their homes, their jobs, their family members… Fortunately, I I just lost my job. But my house and my family are fine and I can’t complain,” says Pau.
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“There is fear in general”
This intersection of thoughts caused him a lot of sadness on Sunday, after the visit of the Kings. Although he reiterates that “just telling the king what he thought was a relief” and that he was able to get out “everything he had inside”, in the afternoon, he felt strange. “I was sad” he declares. And he adds: “I understand that people are angry. I feel bad for the King because he is not responsible for this, nor for the journalists and people who did not deserve to have things thrown at him. But I also understand the people who are fed up because there is fear here: because of what is going to happen, because we are working to clean up everything and we don’t see the end, because ‘we don’t know how it’s going to be resolved…
The list of all the fears of Paiportinos is almost innumerable. He says that the fear is general, because there are also “scoundrels in the city who take advantage of people’s moods to steal”: “If it’s water, fine. But They are also jewelry stores and things that make no sense.
In fact, even if yesterday electricity arrived in some houses, from six in the afternoon, when night begins to fall and Paiporta finds itself without electricity, “they hold meetings with the neighbors to monitor” that some gang groups that formed in the city because of DANA, do not enter neighbors’ houses.
