Overview
- King Felipe VI and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez joined a ceremony in Valencia where the 237 victims were honored, as Regional President Carlos Mazón was loudly heckled by attendees.
- Tens of thousands marched in recent days, with about 50,000 people rallying against the regional government’s handling of the disaster and demanding accountability.
- Judicial inquiries are reconstructing the crisis timeline after the coordination center met around 17:00 and issued a mass mobile alert at 20:11, with former officials under investigation for possible omission and negligent homicide.
- AEMET says warnings are now issued earlier and more clearly, and the region’s system sent a detailed mobile alert more than 12 hours ahead of a late-September storm.
- More than €8 billion in state and insurance funds have supported recovery, yet many garages and elevators remain out of service and some students study in temporary classrooms as experts warn key upstream and urban-planning defenses will take years to build.