Thirty police officers were injured and three people were arrested during protests in the Spanish city of Valencia, badly hit by deadly floods.
Tens of thousands of people protested in the regional capital this Saturday evening to demand the resignation of the local government. The demonstrators denounce the slowness of relief operations, eleven days after floods which took the lives of more than 200 people.
It is estimated that 130,000 people gathered in the streets of the city. At the end of the rally, confrontations with police took place, and officers were stoned by the protests. The demonstrators met at the end of the day on the large square in front of the Valencia town hall to walk the kilometer that separates it from the headquarters of the regional government.
They demanded in particular “resignation” of its president Carlos Mazón (Popular Party, right), but the socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has not been spared from criticism either. The two men are accused by the victims of having underestimated the risks and poorly coordinated relief after the floods of October 29, which devastated nearly 80 communities.
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