at least 219 dead, and many underground car parks still need to be inspected (photos)

According to the reports provided by the national and local authorities, 219 people died in these bad weather, the worst natural disaster in the recent history of Spain, according to the executive. Among them, 214 died in the Valencia region, four in Castile-la-Mancha and one in Andalusia.

The courts have already authorized the handing over of “nearly fifty bodies” of the deceased to their families, the Superior Court of Justice of Valencia indicated on the social network X.

And the priority always remains the location of the missing, the precise number of whom has never been communicated.

« Sentiment d’abandon »

The authorities are particularly concerned about the situation in many underground car parks, which are completely flooded and which have not yet been completely inspected.

In recent days, the personnel of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), which responds to natural disasters, have installed numerous pumps to begin evacuating the water.

“We are better but we are not well”: a week after the floods in Spain, cleaning and relief still underway

In Picanya, near Valencia, “neighbors” are still missing, underlines mayor Josep Almenar, who, a week after the disaster, continues to “take out the trash from the city, take out the cars”.

15,000 soldiers deployed

In total, nearly 15,000 soldiers and police officers are deployed to help residents and carry out clearing operations, according to the executive, which specifies that this number has doubled in three days.

A deployment, however, considered insufficient by part of the population.

“It’s been six days, already six days, and it’s only the population that helps us, we can only count on the solidarity of the population,” laments Matilde Gregori, owner of a store, to AFP. devastated by floods in Sedavi, near Valencia.

“Where are the politicians? Where are they ? Why didn’t they raise the alarm? Assassins. They are assassins,” she says, while taking part in an aid distribution.

This exasperation materialized on Sunday with an explosion of anger from residents against the King of Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the President of the Valencia region Carlos Mazón, during a visit to Paiporta, greeted with shouts of “Assassins!” » and targeted by jets of mud and objects.