The delegate of the government of Pedro Sánchez in the Valencian Community, the socialist Pilar Bernabéreduced this Sunday the disturbances that occurred during Saturday’s demonstration in Valencia to “isolated incidents” and which resulted in four arrested and 31 police officers injured. In addition, there were acts of vandalism and an attempt to burn with flares the town hall door.
Asked about this after participating in a meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), Pilar Bernabé declared that the march included “more than 130,000 people “in emotional circumstances for a broken society.” “That said, we can say that it was a largely peaceful demonstration, attended by tens of thousands of people. “They transmitted their pain”he brandished.
“Let me tell you the incident, I’m not going to make categories.”assured Pilar Bernabé, stressing that “there were some isolated incidents which the Police arrested and contained. “Indeed, results have been achieved through this,” he added.
Concretely, according to the National Police, four people were arrested, including two for public unrest and two others for assaults on law enforcement officers. In addition, 31 police officers were reportedly injured. Also 13 people have been identified and three minutes of intervention were written, he collected Ep.
“Regarding the demonstration, what can be assured is that the Spanish government undoubtedly respects in a very clear and energetic way what more than 130,000 people said in the streets,” he said declared. “A society, that of Valencia, torn by pain, and we can only listen to it because it is our political and moral obligation,” he added.
In this sense, Pilar Bernabé declared that “it is only for them and for the tens of thousands of people who suffer that this government will work tirelessly until the last day and the last minute that this emergency and this post will last -emergency”. she commented. During the Valencia demonstration there were also messages against Sánchez.
For his part, the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, the socialist Angel Victor Torresavoided referring to the altercations of this Sunday, although he was questioned at the Moncloa Palace about the Valencia demonstration. Torres, who appeared after the holding of the crisis commission chaired by Pedro Sánchez, limited himself to saying that the PSOE-Sumar government respected any protest from citizens who be “peaceful and regulated”.
“In the channels that must always prevail for peaceful and regulated demonstrations, all respect on the part of the Spanish Government for the right of the citizen to demonstrate or public expression» were his only words, without referring to the episodes of violence and the attacks against the police the day before.
The PP condemns “vandalism”
From the People’s Partyhis deputy secretary for the Economy, Juan Bravomade reference this Sunday to the riots in Valencia during a press conference held in Genoa. “From there we must share the pain, condemn any type of violence, because vandalism will never be the solution. The solution is to all work together,” Bravo emphasized during a speech in which he announced a 13-point plan including measures to care for those affected by DANA.
In this context, the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, indicated this Sunday that out of “respect for those who feel this pain and this frustration”, he was not going to make at this moment “any reflection on other things that happened yesterday.” , about certain organizers of yesterday ».
It is for this reason that he refused to describe behaviors that “the victims or the Valencian people do not deserve”. Mazón’s appearance is scheduled, at his request, next Thursday at the Valencian Courts. On the other hand, neither the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, nor the third Vice-President and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Therese Riberawill show their faces this week at the Congress of Deputies for their management in front of DANA.
It should be remembered that both State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) like the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) depend on the Ministry of Riverside. The first of these organizations underestimated the storm, while the CHJ late informed the Emergency Department of the Generalitat by email of the overflow of the storm. Poyo Ravinewhich was decisive in the scale of the tragedy.
“Of course I recognize and deeply respect the pain, as I also did in Paiporta and as I do every time I see the affected people gathering,” Mazón said the day after the demonstration organized against him by groups of extreme left and pan-Catalanists subsidized in their time by the socialist governments of Ximo Puig. Among the main organizers was the Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV), an entity chaired by Anna Oliver.
“Total respect, total understanding and total empathy with the disaster situation that we, the Valencians, are suffering, especially with the victims,” added the president of the Generalitat.
