At least 205 people have died in flooding in eastern Spain, the nation's deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
PAIPORTA, Spain — 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 epicenter of their nation's deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
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. Police had to step in, some officers on horseback, to keep back the crowd of several dozen, some wielding shovels and poles. 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.
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's reception.“We don´t have any water,” one woman told her. The floods had already hit Paiporta when the regional officials issued an alert to mobile phones. It sounded two hours too late.
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