“They tell me that.” “They tell me that.” “The media is hiding it.” The proliferation of false messages on social networks about the consequences of DANA in Valencia has contributed to increasing the anxiety that an unprecedented tragedy has generated in a society broken by pain, outraged and in need of help.
The latest of the hoaxes that have circulated regarding the work to access the Bonaire’s underground car park floodedassures that the management of the shopping center reported that at the time of the flood there were 700 active vehicle tickets. Anyone who has ever been to this recreation area knows that access to the parking lot is free and there is not even a control barrier.
“I’m fed up,” one of the volunteers who help emergency services remove vehicles piled up in the streets of Ground Zero with their tractor commented on social media this Monday. Their indignation comes from the numerous messages circulating claiming that reality is being obscured.
Nando Durá, a farmer from Sueca, and his colleague Raúl, from Massanassa, were on Friday with firefighters in one of the flooded tunnels that connect Alfafar and Benetússer. This underground passage between the two Valencian cities devastated by the storm became a mousetrap for many vehicles circulating in the area and were carried away by the current.
“I removed between 100 and 150 cars and we did not remove any bodies”explains Nando in a telephone conversation with ABC. “The Judicial Police were there, prepared in case it was necessary to intervene and the firefighters checked vehicle by vehicle before taking them to an adjacent garden,” he says. “We never stopped working because no body was found,” he says.
A clarification that he says he is obliged to face in the face of the countless people who reject his version, confirmed by sources from the Civil Guard to the media who published the good news, also accused of lying.
In any case, It’s not the same tunnel of the area during which the members of the Provincial Consortium of Firefighters of the Provincial Delegation of Málaga, who went to Alfafar, assured Europa Press on Friday that they had managed to evacuate the water, which had reached seven meters in height. Inside they found “30 to 40 vehicles, with victims inside”, as the aforementioned agency indicated.
