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The Spanish TFC coach has expressed his solidarity with his compatriots as the Valencia region faces terrible flooding.
The human toll is terrible, not to mention the material damage. This Friday, November 1, the Spanish authorities reported a new provisional toll of at least 205 deaths during the floods which ravaged the south-east of Spain this week, and more particularly the Valencia region.
An apocalyptic situation on the other side of the Pyrenees, which made the coach of Toulouse FC, Carles Novell Martinez, who is originally from Barcelona (Catalonia), react.
“Everyone sympathizes”
“When you see this kind of disaster, the videos, it's just unthinkable, incredible, underlines the technician, visibly moved. Everyone sympathizes with people's distress. Sometimes, we don't really feel concerned by this kind of disaster. drama because it's far away, on the American continent, in Africa… You tell yourself that it can't happen to you and there, what's happening is right next door.”
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“I hope that we will be able to better anticipate this type of disaster in the future and avoid all these tragedies. Unfortunately, we cannot change what has just happened. We must be able to do as much as possible to help the victims, to that they return to a normal life as quickly as possible. Many people have died, we all have a thought, at the club, for these people.
