relatives of the deceased in residences and the victims of the DANA cry justice in Madrid
Juan Goytisolo Plaza in Madrid, in front of the Reina Sofía Museum, has been the scene of a protest day they have attended around a thousand people and in which they have remembered 7,291 deaths of older people during the first months of the pandemic in the Community of Madrid and the 235 deceased after the Dana that ravaged Valencia last October. Before a small scenario, people from culture, judiciary and activism have paraded, who have claimed political responsibilities against the two tragedies that occurred. In the concentration, a single cry has been heard above others: Mazón and Ayuso in prison.
The television presenter Inés Hernand has been in charge of conducting the act: “In the last decade, in the Community of Madrid the expenditure to the private health concert has increased by 140%, promoted last year to 1,209 million euros,” he introduced. “They are stealing us in our face, not only the money that it is hard for us to generate, but the right to health,” he said before the congregates chanted the number 7,291.
Hernand has also pointed out that “you will progressively stop being patients to be clients and the formula in this community where the term freedom has been violated until exhaustion, is that if you do not have resources, or pay or your attention it will be reduced little by little. Finally, the driver of the act has assured that” we come to share and demand truth, justice and repair for 7,291 people deceased with names and surnames ” of the shame “, as mentioned, that they denied the health care to those patients of Covid who lived in residences.
After this initial speech, Maite Rodríguez, daughter of one of these deceased, a member of the 7,291 truth and justice, who has reported to the screams of the assistants of “are not deaths, are murders” has taken the word, they are murders “how the pandemic was managed in the residences. This memory activist recalled that from March to April 2020, 9,470 residents died, one in five people who lived in residences.
“Ayuso to jail” has been one of the most chanted songs in this mobilization, of which the emeritus magistrate of the Supreme Court, Martín Pallín, has also been part. He was the president of the Citizen Commission for the truth in Madrid residences and stressed that “an important time has come”, in relation to the former positions of the Ayus government currently investigated by justice. “The important thing is that this does not happen again. And the residences are the same or worse than before the pandemic,” he said before the response of those present “worse.”
The writers and journalists Edurne Portela and José Ovejero have indicated that they arrive convened by “pain and memory, outrage and rage, the need for truth and justice of the victims of the necropolitics of the Ayuso government to which the victims of the neglect and moral corruption of Carlos Mazón” are added. Next, the doctor by profession and singer El Zuri has played a song, something that would repeat throughout the mobilization, in which they have been able to hear verses such as “I am no longer messages, or morals, and speak short, that the people understand, there is a lot of anger.”
They ask for political responsibilities
Juanjo Castro, the director of the documentary “7.291”, has also participated in this act in which the Sun has not given a minute of truce. “Political responsibilities are not deleted, they are still there and we must continue to demand them, because those decisions caused the death of many people in the most absolute solitude,” he said.
To the shout of “truth, justice, reparation”, Ramona Carvajal, daughter of one of the residents during the pandemic, has stressed that “we want justice for those people who did not have the opportunity for care and health, not even that some could survive any, they sentenced them to death from the beginning”, a message that has been received by applause by the various hundreds of people who pile square.
A member of Amnesty International, Alberto Astarloa, commented that an investigation carried out by the group determined that during the pandemic five rights had been violated, “among them to health, life and dignity”, as he has pointed out. This human rights activist has also underlined his confidence that “we can judge that truth, justice and reparation as a guarantee of non -repetition of such dramatic facts.”
The Pladigmare platform has been present this morning with some of its members. Alicia García has been one of them: “Little by little, as the ants fill their pantry on which their subsistence and future depends, we continue working to achieve changes, although they point out and cause discouragement, they make the performance in getting them be firmer,” he said in front of the microphone.
The spokesman for neighbors of neighborhoods and towns of Madrid, José Luis Yubero, added that “we want truth, justice and dignity, so good people are governed.” In addition, he has defended that “enduring someone like Ayuso and Mazón removes you; it is something that we cannot endure or endure.”
The Valencian people, in the voices of Madrid
Solfonic musical activists have also acted when the mobilization waited for an hour. Next to them, the square has chanted “public health” repeatedly. Then, the presenter of the literary program “A country to read it”, which is broadcast in the 2, Mario Obrero, who has expressed in Valencian all his support for the people of the Valencià country who today have supported this call.
“There are certain forgetfulness that threaten our life. Those called Provida do so only to cut women's rights. When it comes to the old women and the neighbors of Valencia, they are not provident, of course not,” added the presenter. Obrero has read, to end, the poem of the Valencian author Vicent Andrés Estellés “Assumaràs la Veu d'Ancle” (“You will assume the voice of a people”).
The Association of fatalities October 29 and Local Emergency and Reconstruction Committees have claimed “Justice” against the Dana that ravaged Valencia. “Poble Valencià we still know where he was,” said Rosa María Gil, a member of the first of the entities, in reference to the location of Mazón during the Dana. Then, Ruth Moyano has assured that “in the face of their hate and destruction policies, we organize ourselves to build the future society we want, a society based on respect for life in all its forms and dimensions.”
Finally, around 1:30 p.m. the reading of the final manifesto in charge of María Jesús Valero, daughter of deceased in a residence during the pandemic and president of the Association 7.291 Truth and Justice, as well as by Carmen Ruiz, Activist of Plaadigmare,. “Here we follow many people, struggling for a more fair future. We do not want symbolic gestures or empty promises, but the voice of those affected and working to get a dignified and fair care system,” they have concluded.
