Since DANA struck the Valencian Community, almost a fortnight ago, devastating stories have continued to arrive on our phones and televisions, making the the tragedy travels thousands of kilometers and that empathy, helplessness and worry have become feelings with which the majority of Spaniards identify.
However, and despite the harshness of the situation, these stories which travel from person to person, Sometimes they become heroic stories, whose only argument is humanity and selfless help: save a life for the simple act of saving it.
This is the case of Mansour, a young man of 18 years old originally from Guinea-Conakry, arrived by boat to the Canary Islands and currently lives Malaga. Last Wednesday, while the rains caused by DANA fell heavily on the Costa del Sol, andThe streets were floodedMansour didn’t think twice and entered the water to save a lady who was in trouble.
The woman, aged around 40, could not finish crossing a wide street in the capital Malaga, filled with a lot of water. and remained motionless without being able to move forward. It was at that moment, according to Mansour, that he decided to go help her. “She told me she couldn’t walk so I came to pick her up“I took her out of the street then I went to the police to help me,” explains the young man.
The exploit, which circulates in images on social networks, has gone around Spain, not only because of the dangerous and altruistic action of the boy, but also because of the open debate on immigration in our country . Mansour is currently asylum seeker, waiting so that his request was resolved and he arrived in Spain by the “Canary route”, considered one of the most dangerous.
The truth is that when it comes to one’s own misfortune or that of others, the nationality of the person who intervenes to help his neighbor does not matter, and this shows, once again, that in these kinds of circumstances the union between the people involved That’s the most important thing.
