The tourist advisor of the Valencian Community, Nuria Monteswarned the relatives of those killed by DANA not to go to the Valencia Fair, where the morgue is located, because they will not be able to receive the bodies of their loved ones there and advised them to wait at home because “C “That’s where they’re best.”
In front of the media, the advisor clearly indicated that “the bodies will not be handed over to the families here, access will not be permitted relatives in the area where we kept all the deceased, so they must mandatory waiting for court appeal and submission of relevant documentation. The best place for families to wait for news of their loved ones is at home,” said the People’s Party councilor.
His message and especially the tone with which it was transmitted sparked controversy on social networks due to its lack of empathy towards the victims of the tragedy. With unanimity on the right and left in the rejection of the comments of the regional advisor.
Jordi Canasformer citizen deputy in the European Parliament, wrote on his social networks: “The level of insensitivity and incompetence It’s unsurpassable. Who do they think they are talking to? How can the families of the victims be treated like this? But what is wrong with these people?
The level of insensitivity and incompetence is unsurpassable.
Who do they think they are addressing? How can the relatives of the victims be treated like this? But what is wrong with these people? 😞
pic.twitter.com/rX96cXZFKd– Jordi Cañas (@jordi_canyas) November 1, 2024
Victor Sánchez of Realformer Vox deputy in Congress, wrote: “In training, for much less serious subjects, we teach to have real empathy with the public/people concerned. In a crisis, even more so. In the event of a massacre, I won’t even tell you. This advisor should resign at this moment: Neither the tone, nor the substance, nor the humanity.
When training spokespersons on much less serious topics, we learn to have real empathy with the audience/parties involved.
In a crisis, this is even more true.
In the event of a massacre, I won’t even tell you.
This advisor should resign immediately: Neither the tone, nor the substance, nor the humanity. pic.twitter.com/kPlwKu4bwq– Victor SánchezdelReal (@sanchezdelreal) November 1, 2024
Joan Riboformer mayor of Valencia and leader of Compromís, proclaimed: “I am ashamed and angry that councilor Nuria Montes speaks like this, in authoritarian terms and without any type of empathy to the relatives of the victims.
It is shameful and angry that Councilor Nuria Montes speaks here, in authoritarian terms and full of empathy for the families of the victims.
pic.twitter.com/kGxchbumbl– Joan Ribó (@joanribo) November 1, 2024
At the moment they are 205 dead for the worst DANA of the century. The Emergency Center of the Generalitat Valenciana has confirmed that it has been able to verify that so far 202 people have lost their lives due to the catastrophic cold fall in the Valencian Community. To this figure we must add the 2 deaths in Castile-La Mancha and another person in Andalusia.
The dead bodies that are recovered in the areas most affected by the storm (Paiporta, Picanya, Chiva, Utiel, Catarroja, Alfafar and Sedaví) are gradually arriving at Valencia Fair after the Institute of Legal Medicine of the City of Justice of the Valencian capital was overwhelmed by the constant arrival of dead people.
In this area, a autopsy area and another for the storage of bodies until they can be identified and returned to families, as confirmed by the Minister of Justice and the Interior. Salome Pradas.
The consequences of this tragedy already exceed those of other historical natural disasters, such as the Tous “swamp” of 1982, caused by the rupture of the dam in the bed of the Júcar river, the overflow of the Túria river during its passage through Valencia in 1957, which caused the death of 81 people, or the flooding of the Las Nieves de Biescas campsite, which killed 87 people in 1996. In Rubí, in the Vallées de Barcelona region, more than 600 victims of the flood of Llobregat rivers died in 1962 i Kisses.
The National Meteorological Agency warned this Friday that the alert continues because the unfavorable situation has not yet subsided and the weather is expected to persist. rain throughout the weekend.