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Number of deaths due to isolated high-grade depression (DANA) that struck Spain last Tuesday This Sunday they rose to 217, The vast majority of them, 213, occurred in the province of Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast, the epicenter of Spain’s worst floods since the last century.

The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor Torres, announced this Sunday that the death toll in the province of Valencia increased to 213, although he did not name the number of missing people, five days after the flood.

The remaining casualties occurred in the regions Castile-La Mancha: three dead and one in Andalusia.

During a press conference after a meeting of the crisis committee monitoring the effects of the hurricane, Torres admitted that he could not yet provide data on the missing. because you need to “also be absolutely strict.”

The Minister also called the deployment of military personnel and security forces that is taking place in Valencia, “the greatest in peacetime.”

He remembered this at the request of the Regional President of the Valencian Community, Carlos Manzón, The number of army troops has increased from 2,500 yesterday to almost 6,000. The rest, up to 7,500, will arrive in the next few hours.

Regarding the National Police and the Civil Guard, according to the Minister, 6500 have already been mobilized effective, but this figure will increase to 9,479: 4,256 police officers and 5,223 civilian guards.

Tonight, in addition, the landing ship “Galicia” will arrive, which means that UME “will now be present on every corner, all the municipalities are doing a wonderful job,” along with the work being done by state security forces and agencies.

In Spain, the powers to manage this type of emergency are regional governments have them, who are responsible for asking the central government for what they consider reinforcements.

Government blames ‘radical groups’ for attack on Sanchez

For her part, First Vice President and Minister of Finance Maria Jesús Montero: blamed “radical groups” responsibility for reproaches to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, this Sunday during his visit to Paiporto, one of the cities most affected by DANA, where they insulted him, threw objects at him and hit the car in which he was evacuated for his protective equipment.

“We will not allow radical groups to take advantage of people’s pain.” and distract us from what is a priority. The government led by Pedro Sánchez is focused on what is important, namely accompanying the families of the victims and working towards reconstruction,” Montero wrote in a social media post. Europe Press.

Sanchez participated in the retinue of the Spanish kings, Felipe VI and Letizia, which was also attended by the President of ValenciaCarlos Mason, who also received dirt and were insulted.

The media loves eldiario.es and newspaper Public They pointed to the presence of far-right groups in Pyport, such as “National Core”, “Desocupa”, “Spain 2000” or “Revuelta”, the latter associated with the far-right party Vox, and the same one that called for demonstrations at the headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) in Madrid in November 2023.

According to www.eldiario.es Environment of Revuelta claimed responsibility for the attack on Sanchez. In a WhatsApp group accessed by the media, one of the participants said: “We are from my association here, we destroyed their car, but we only managed to hit them in the back with a stick.”

And he added: “I don’t know what happened next, but “He left our area alive.”. According to media reports, the police are already investigating the chats.

A subject named Adrian K. gave an interview to eldiario.es and assured that he was not in Paiport, but he knows those who caused the riots: “Representatives of the association agreed [con la comitiva oficial], I won’t specify what they did, but they agreed with him and did something. […] “I don’t belong to an association, I’m a volunteer,” he said.

After the events, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez assured that they were “some kind of cruel, absolutely marginal” who started the riotand ensured that his government would not deviate from the goal of saving lives and recovering the bodies of those killed due to the hurricane, as well as rebuilding the affected areas.

(according to information from EFE, Europe Press And Aristegui News)