More than a dozen fairgrounds Lucène They were plunged into the passage of destruction and chaos that DANA sowed in Valencia, and in they continue to immerse themselves. One of them, Antonio Perezhe told ABC this Friday what they experienced and what they suffer with their attractions trapped in the mud.
“Say that It’s a nightmare, it’s not enough. You can’t even imagine what it is. “Reality is stranger than fiction,” says Pérez. Then he remembers that they had the opportunity to go to the Paiporta Fair -the zero point of this enormous punishment of nature-. At that moment, he admits, “we can’t imagine something like that happening.”
This fit into their calendar as the date for Christmas in Ibiza came up. “You go places, looking for a life and serving the city where you settle. But Unfortunately, we witnessed a disaster», comments this Lucentian fairman.
Her older brother was the one who directly lived the water hell that shook Paiporta Tuesday – they had installed their caravans in another place -. “He told us not to go to Paiporta. He was accompanied by two or three companions. He was stuck in a school for four hours, with the janitor. My brother thought I didn’t say it“, he said.
“It was like a tsunami”
“The problem is that it was like a tsunami. There is mud three meters high in some places. And they don’t remove it in case there is someone there,” he says, frighteningly recounting the drama we are experiencing in Valencia.
Condition of one of the attractions of the Paiporta Fair
“Thank God, No we didn’t have any personal misfortune. Yes, we had the caravans there, at the Paiporta Fair… But they let us install them elsewhere,” explains Pérez.
But on the economic level, the damage was significant: “My uncle had a attraction. Me, one. “My brother brought three companies.” The passage of DANA left them »covered in mudwith logs, bags of cement. “It costs us the money of a season or two,” he laments.
He assures that “no one went to the Fair has come see us or help us» -The mayor of Aracena, Aurelio Fernández, contacted them. And they cannot abandon their attractions, which are “what gives us life.” “Until I get the last screw, we can’t move to Lucena,” he says.
Then he adds that it is also “we are exposed to theft“. “At night, there are waves of robberies and the agents cannot take care of everything,” he explains. “It’s going to be very complicated,” he says and concludes, trying to show a glimmer of hope and once again emphasizing the importance of not having suffered any personal loss: “But everything comes out of it, except the dead”.
