The day after the massif demonstration against the leadership of DANA in Valencia, in which more than 130,000 people called for the resignation of the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, began with the cleaning against time of institutional buildings vandalized by a group of radicals, a times The demonstration ended and took place without incident.
Municipal workers began early on Sunday to clean graffiti from the facades of Valencia City Hall and the Palau de la Generalitat, while removing the mud-stained posters, boots and clothespins that thousands of demonstrators, outraged by the political development of the disaster in which 214 people died and 41 are still missing, gathered in its surroundings.
130,000 people, according to the figure provided by the Government Delegation, took to the streets this Saturday in Valencia during a demonstration called to demand the “immediate resignation” of the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, and his Consell for “not knowing how to manage” the tragedy.
The tour began after six in the afternoon with a banner with the unique motto “Mazón resignation”, it crossed the center of the capital of Turia until ending in Plaza Manises, in front of the Palau de the Generalitat, where the tragedy occurred. They read a manifesto. In the Town Hall Square, there were tense moments when some demonstrators threw flares and threw mud and objects against the facade of the Town Hall. At that moment, the police charged a group very close to the town hall balcony.
Valencia City Hall reported that there was a “attempted burn” the town hall door. And on the facade and on the ground of the square there was graffiti on which one could read slogans such as “El poble no oblida” and “murderer”.
The mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, shared some images of the damage suffered by the town hall building and stressed that “it is time to work together to move forward the neighborhoods and municipalities affected by this terrible tragedy, as we let’s do it already.”
“With absolute respect for everyone, I consider that confrontation and vandalism will never be the solution. The city of Valencia is also an affected municipality and a symbol of the solidarity of an entire people. “This is the Valencia we want and need,” declared the first mayor in her X story.
At the same time, once the official protest ended, thousands of demonstrators remained around the Palau and Plaza de la Virgen, where some radicals began to protest. throw paint cans and other objects to the agents of the National Police, who activated the UIP codes to charge against them in order to dissuade the most exalted concentration.
Indeed, the National Police arrested four people after the demonstration during which 31 police officers were injured. In addition, they identified 13 other people and filed three intervention reports during a night of tension in the city center.
