After the flood in Valencia
Spanish royal couple pelted with mud
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia traveled to Valencia on Sunday to meet the people affected by the flood disaster and to inspect the damage. Instead of a warm welcome, however, they were pelted with mud, stones, bottles and sticks and insulted as "murderers" by angry citizens in Paiporta.
King Felipe VI and his wife Letizia are certainly used to more hospitality. In the municipality of Paiporta in the Spanish province of Valencia, residents vented their pent-up anger - and no doubt also deep despair.
Royal couple insulted as "murderers"
They threw stones, mud, sticks and bottles at the royal couple and called the royals "murderers". The angry crowd kept shouting: "Get lost, get lost!"
While Felipe seemed to endure this with stoic composure, his wife Letizia was visibly upset by the commotion. She seemed shocked, was surrounded hand and foot by security guards and shielded as much as possible from the flying bullets.
Head of government Pedro Sánchez and regional president Carlos Mazón also had to make their way through the angry crowd.
You have no water, we have nothing! People are dying here!
Der wütende Mob zu Königin Letizia
Letizia visibly desperate, splattered with mud
The mob's accusation: there is not enough help. "You lack nothing ... and the people here are dying!" a man shouts at the queen. "You don't lack water, we have nothing! People are dying here!" The situation escalated, bottles, stones and mud rained down on the royals, mud hit Letizia in the face (see X post below).
The mob surrounded the couple. It was only with great difficulty that the situation was brought under control. Mounted police finally escorted the couple to safety.
272 deaths have been recorded so far after the horror flood, leaving many people with nothing.
In the towns to the west and south of Valencia, in the devastated villages, many people felt completely abandoned in the first hours and days after the disaster - muddy roads, a lack of drinking water and food and power cuts dominated their everyday lives. Support in the form of donations and help with the clean-up work often only came from volunteers.
The picture has now changed: Almost 4,000 soldiers have been deployed alongside the rescue workers, with thousands more soldiers and police officers set to join them. However, the disaster does not seem to be over yet, the warning level is orange and rescue and recovery operations are far from over.
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