The Town Hall of Aldaia, one of the Valencian towns most affected by the DANA disaster, held a ordinary full in which neighbors spoke out and expressed their outrage after the flood.
A session, the first since the tragedy, organized during more than four hours at the Market Theater, where those affected were able to address their questions to the municipal corporation led by Mayor Guillermo Luján (PSOE), who regretted the lack of warnings regarding the overflow of the Saleta ravine, which passes through the municipality.
Compromís and the PP will request a commission of inquiry to shed light on municipal management in the most critical days. Precisely, the municipality’s response to the emergency, the need for increased aid or the slowness of reconstruction work, were some of the questions that the population put on the table.
“We were abandoned, we took the shit away. We are humans, not animals», lamented a citizen, who thanked the work of the young volunteers and criticized, according to him, the weak presence of advisors in the street. “I go to bed and wake up with mud. And I ask myself: ‘Where are the people who represent me?'” he added.
But the anger of many was reflected in the intervention of a neighbor, who recounted what she had experienced since that fateful afternoon of October 29, worried about her daughter, who had a pump implanted to treat the hypertension she suffers from. “If that fails and more than an hour passes, you could have a heart attack,” he said.
“In a day and a half, I couldn’t go out. I called the town hall three times. “Madam, calm down, I see you very nervous.”. “I recorded the voice of the police officer who answered me,” he denounced.
“It’s security. If my daughter has a heart attack, what should I do? I take a gun and eliminate the mayor, the first one next to me, then the one from Valencia and finally the one from Madrid. In this order. I’ve never protested anything, but it has rubbed me the wrong way before. No one touches my family. Do you want me to tell you how many favorites I have every day?’” he said.
