00:0050,000 people took to the streets of Valencia for the 12th time on Saturday,
00:07calling for regional leader Carlos Mathon to resign.
00:10Chanting, they didn't die, they were murdered,
00:13protesters excoriated Mathon over his handling of flash floods
00:17that killed 229 people one year ago.
00:21Residents of the affected areas accused the regional government
00:24of issuing an alert too late,
00:27after buildings were already underwater,
00:29leading to the most catastrophic flood-related event in Europe since 1967.
00:36I live in Aldaya and I have lost everything,
00:39but what matters is not the material losses,
00:41but the human losses, and they could have been avoided.
00:47The thing is, we have increasingly shameless politicians
00:50who don't listen to anything and it's getting harder.
00:52But in the end, if you persist, you succeed.
00:55My strength comes from the many memories I have,
01:00because I have lost three people and they were all very young.
01:04So now all I ask is that justice be done and that justice be served,
01:08and that whoever has to pay for it, pays for it.
01:13Meteorologists say the torrential downpours that battered eastern Spain on October 29, 2024,
01:19were equal to a year's worth of rain.
01:23Ensuing floods drowned people in cars and collapsed homes.
01:27Spanish authorities said on Thursday
01:29that the body of a 56-year-old man had been found buried in mud
01:33a year after he was swept away by the water.
01:37A judicial investigation is underway into the emergency response.
01:41No question.
01:47John Kerry, the other one,
01:49is to appeal to the communities' government in the area.
01:51Today's what happens,
01:53the communities in the area actually have been found
01:56in the area for the last time.
01:57It's a pandemic.
01:59It's a pandemic.
01:59You still feel like you are a leader,
02:01where you expect the city of a against-risk,
02:04you still have to be a leader for the pride thing.
02:06And as I know,
02:08that's a pandemic.
