{"id":527818,"date":"2025-10-25T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527818\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:55:18","slug":"tens-of-thousands-protest-a-year-after-deadly-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527818\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands protest a year after deadly floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tens of thousands of people on Saturday protested in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, one year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/spain-grapples-with-aftermath-of-deadly-floods\/a-70638260\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the floods that killed 229 people;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the floods that killed 229 people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Demonstrators were demanding the resignation of regional leader Carlos Mazon over his handling of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They displayed banners with messages such as &#8220;Mazon to prison&#8221; and chanted, &#8220;They didn&#8217;t die, they were murdered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With a total of 229 deaths, it was Europe&#8217;s worst flood-related disaster since 1967.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Regional leader Carlos Mazon has been under immense pressure, with regular protests against him on or near the monthly anniversaries of the disaster&lt;span class=&quot;copyright&quot;&gt;Jorge Gil\/Europa Press\/dpa\/picture alliance&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/88e7643caa74df41a57bd5317fb059a8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Regional leader Carlos Mazon has been under immense pressure, with regular protests against him on or near the monthly anniversaries of the disasterJorge Gil\/Europa Press\/dpa\/picture alliance<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s deadliest floods in modern history<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/spain-thousands-protest-in-valencia-over-flood-response\/a-70744791\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mazon&#039;s administration has been heavily criticized;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mazon&#8217;s administration has been heavily criticized<\/a> for issuing an alert too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The warning arrived more than 12 hours after the national weather agency had issued its highest alert level for torrential rains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents told Spanish media that muddy water was already surrounding their cars, flooding streets and pouring into their homes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/valencia-residents-say-flood-warnings-came-too-late\/a-70664528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:by the time they received the messages;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">by the time they received the messages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Under Spain&#8217;s decentralized system, managing disasters falls under the authority of regional governments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, Mazon claimed that his administration lacked the necessary information to issue a warning sooner and said that the magnitude was unforeseeable.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Over 50,000 people took part in the protest, according to the central government's office in Valencia&lt;span class=&quot;copyright&quot;&gt;Alex Juarez\/Anadolu\/picture alliance&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8d1718f102f4ed243dd51f2af30d3548.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Over 50,000 people took part in the protest, according to the central government&#8217;s office in ValenciaAlex Juarez\/Anadolu\/picture alliance<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A judicial investigation into the emergency response is underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the day of the floods, Mazon had an hour-long lunch with a local journalist who had been summoned by the court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edited by: Wesley Dockery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of people on Saturday protested in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, one year 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