{"id":121819,"date":"2024-11-04T03:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T20:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121819"},"modified":"2024-11-04T03:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T20:39:03","slug":"spains-flood-survivors-toss-mud-and-shout-insults-at-king-felipe-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121819","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s flood survivors toss mud and shout insults at King Felipe VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PAIPORTA, Spain (AP) \u2014 A crowd of enraged <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/flash-floods-spain-valencia-climate-change-what-to-know-f942142b82de24f5b4a18867bc32ae00\">survivors<\/a><\/span> hurled clots of mud left by storm-spawned flooding at the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/king-felipe-vi\">Spanish royal couple<\/a><\/span> on Sunday during their first visit to the epicenter of their nation\u2019s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s national broadcaster reported that the barrage included a few rocks and other objects and that two bodyguards were treated for injuries. One could be seen with a bloody wound on his forehead. <\/p>\n<p>It was an unprecedented incident for a royal house that carefully crafts the image of monarchs adored by their country of more than 48 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish fury has been unleashed against a state that appears overwhelmed and unable to meet the needs of people used to living under an effective government.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also rushed Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez from the scene soon after his contingent started to walk the mud-covered streets of one of the hardest-hit areas, where over 60 people perished and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/flash-floods-spain-valencia-f52e40c9fdf2af44814617948afdb920\">thousands of lives were shattered<\/a><\/span>. The disaster <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spain-valencia-flooding-rain-climate-change-a183db96064cb5a9e82fc58c92338f38\">fueled by climate change<\/a><\/span> killed at least 205 people in eastern Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet out! Get out!\u201d and \u201cKillers!\u201d the crowd in the town of Paiporta shouted, among other insults. Bodyguards opened umbrellas to protect the royals and other officials from the tossed muck.<\/p>\n<p>Police had to step in, some officers on horseback, to keep back the crowd of several dozen, some wielding shovels and poles.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Letizia broke into tears sympathetically after speaking to several people, including one woman who wept in her arms. Later, one of the queen\u2019s bodyguards had a bloody wound on his forehead and there was a hole in the back window of the prime minister\u2019s official car. <\/p>\n<p>But even after being forced to seek protection, King Felipe VI, with flecks of mud on his face, remained calm and made several efforts to speak to individual residents. He insisted on trying to speak with people as he tried to continue his visit. He spoke to several people, patting two young men on their backs and sharing a quick embrace, with mud stains on his black raincoat.<\/p>\n<p>Still, one woman smacked an official car with an umbrella and another kicked it before it sped off.<\/p>\n<p>While far from awakening the passion that the British hold for their royals, Felipe and Letizia\u2019s public events are usually greeted by crowds of fans.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old Felipe took the throne when his father, Juan Carlos, abdicated in 2014 after he was tarnished by self-made financial and personal scandals. Felipe immediately cut a new figure, renouncing his personal inheritance and increasing the financial transparency of his royal house. He and the 52-year-old Letizia, a former journalist, dedicate a significant part of their public agenda to cultural and scientific causes.<\/p>\n<p>Visits to sites of national tragedies are also part of the royal duties for monarchs seen as a stabilizing force in a parliamentary monarchy restored following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>But the public rage over the haphazard management of the crisis has been building. Felipe heard some jeers when he took part in a tribute to the dead of a deadly 2017 terror attack in Barcelona, but that was nothing comparable to Sunday\u2019s reception.<\/p>\n<p>The queen had small glops of mud on her hands and arms as she spoke to women. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u00b4t have any water,\u201d one woman told her.<\/p>\n<p>Many people still don\u2019t have drinking water five days after the floods struck. Internet and mobile phone coverage remains patchy. Most people only got power back on Saturday. Stores and supermarkets are in ruins and Paiporta, population 30,000, still has many city blocks completely clogged with piles of detritus, countless totaled cars and a ubiquitous layer of mud.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands have had their homes destroyed by a tsunami-like wave of muck and indignation at mismanagement of the disaster has begun.<\/p>\n<p>The floods had already hit Paiporta when the regional officials issued an alert to mobile phones. It sounded two hours too late.<\/p>\n<p>More anger has been fueled by the inability of officials to respond quickly to the aftermath. Most of the cleanup of the layers and layers of mud and debris that has invaded countless homes has been done by residents and thousands of volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost everything!\u201d someone shouted.<\/p>\n<p>Shouts Sunday included demands aimed at regional Valencia President Carlo Maz\u00f3n, whose administration is in charge of civil protection, to step down, as well as \u201cWhere is Pedro S\u00e1nchez?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand the indignation and of course I stayed to receive it,\u201d Maz\u00f3n said on X. \u201cIt was my moral and political obligation. The attitude of the king this morning was exemplary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spanish national broadcaster RTVE reported that the barrage aimed at the royals included a few rocks and other hard objects were tossed and that two bodyguards were treated for injuries, and the monarchs and officials called off another stop Sunday at a second hard-hit village, Chiva, about half an hour to the east of Valencia city.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez said that recovery efforts won\u2019t be derailed by the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to express all my government\u2019s solidarity and its acknowledgement of the anguish, suffering, uncertainty and the needs of the residents of Paiporta and the region of Valencia,\u201d S\u00e1nchez said, while adding that he believes the majority of people \u201creject the types of violence that unfortunately we saw today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mud-slinging scene occurred as thousands more Spanish soldiers, national police officers, and Civil Guard gendarmes arrived, or are set to arrive, at the disaster sites.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Wilson reported from Valencia, Spain.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spain-floods-king-protest-mud-a8525bd82cf4cc3fc6273d535cbb9d66\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAIPORTA, Spain (AP) \u2014 A crowd of enraged survivors hurled clots of mud left by storm-spawned flooding at the Spanish royal couple on Sunday during their first visit to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121819\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}