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My mother-in-law called me and told me 'the girl won't arrive'...
She meant that my wife had died in the crash.
She was a nurse, and was working in the old 'La Fe' hostpital.
She worked part-time, because we had a year-old son...
...she left work at quarter to one...
...and she took the subway.
On July 3rd 2006, the worst subway crash in Spain history occured in Valencia. 43 people died and 47 were injured.
July 3rd 2006. Day of the crash. Valencia public TV station 'Canal 9'
Worker's union criticize Canal 9 for not varying its programming.
If at that point Canal 9 doesn't interrupt the programming...
...and doesn't do a news coverage...
...which could perfectly do, because they had the means...
...profesionales, material, y est√° pasando en su ciudad ese hecho...
If they don't cut the programming at that point, and don't compete with other stations...
...which are broadcasting live on the scene, or interviewing victms, relatives, hospitals...
...as is usual in a tragedy of this kind...
...if Canal 9 doesn't do this, it's because there is an editorial decision...
...that comes from direction of the channel.
The countdown starts in Valencia.
Massive tarpaulins and flags announcing the visit of Pope Benedict XVI.
Five days left and hundreds of people hurry to finalize preparations.
More than 1000 volunteers are coordinated to collaborate with the acts scheduled for the Holy Father.
They'll also be in charge of welcoming pilgrims.
More than a dozen of Valencian towns will recieve at least 300.000 pilgrims.
Coverage of the Pope was untouchable.
The special coverage, prepared during months...
...so that the arrival of the Pope was something very special, that was untouchable.
Good morning from City of Arts in Valencia.
We start this time with breaking news...
...and we will be very attentive to a subway crash in Valencia...
...which has just happened, and the information is still very confuse.
Two wagons have derailed between two stations...
...and it seems that there are people trapped.
We don't know how many people were in the train...
You see all the content released on the press...
...all the news in other TV stations...
...and you see that in your channel...
You may not agree with the decision that has been taken...
...and you think that the news should give more coverage to this fact, more time...
...and people should know more stuff than what you're saying...
The news director talks to the channel director...
...and the channel director sets a guideline. And that's it.
This week, the news about the Pope must be on the news...
...and the first 14 or 15 minutes of the news must be about it.
It's Monday 3rd of July, and we have a very special week ahead.
During this week, Canal 9 information services go out in the street.
From here we will inform you about the historical event...
...which the trip of the Holy Father to Valencia represents.
The lines of the informations in Canal 9...
...were in the same line marked by Valencian Government Presidency...
...and by the spokesman of the Valencian Government.
Subway safety is guaranteed, according to those responsible for it.
...the complex safety system which ensures the reliability of the wagons.
We have accompanied two convoys of Line 1 and the technicians showed us...
These mechanisms can be switched by the driver...
...but they also turn on automatically in case of any irregularity.
Safety measures added to the periodic revisions...
...undergone by all the machines which ride this line.
An expert driver assured us that the crash was fortuitous...
Un experto maquinista nos ha asegurado que el accidente fue fortuito...
...a combination of factors which happen once in a lifetime.
Good evening from the City of Arts in Valencia.
Less than 48 hours left for the visit of the Pope...
...but the subway crash keeps claiming for our informative attention.
Lluis Motes is the person who at that time was the drive belt from above.
But he just followed orders.
He was the figurehead. I understand he had that responsibility...
...he was the news director.
He had many supports, many peopl below him...
...people he trusted and who executed every important piece...
...so that everything went as good as it did.
I was one of those people.
But ultimately, the one who reviews and who is told off...
...if things don't go the way they must go...
...if for instance, today they set the directive...
...not to say that there are 43 dead in the crash.
I don't want that number in any news, for instance.
They do tell you that. They have never told me that.
The one who decides, the...
...news director, because he's been told from Direction...
...because an order arrived from Presidency...
...from Nuria Romeral...
...current director of Radio 9.
Nuria Romeral: President Camps Press Officer (2001-07). Communication Secretary (07-11). Public Radio director (2011-today)
The President Camps was surrounded by a sort of iron ring, which couldn't be trespassed.
They isolated him from reality, and didn't tell him what was going on.
Camps was absolutely isolated from reality.
That iron ring was refractary to everything that came from outside.
Nuria Romeral and all the people who surrounded the President...
...at certain point they feel the commitment of being the Three Musketeers.
They must protect the King from a conspiracy that has been devised.
And that, of course, takes you out of reality.
Different coats, different dedications, different vests, different tasks...
...work for all of us, and all the people suffering the trauma of the crash.
The strategy of oblivion wasn't surely devised by Francisco Camps' Valencian Government.
But they are exemplar pupils of the strategy of oblivion.
They showed absolute indifference to us while they were out in public...
...and did everything they could so that nobody payed us any attention, and forgot us.
News end at this point, barely 24 hours to the moment when hundreds of thousands of people will join onthis stage.
We can only encourage you to enjoy a very special weekend in Valencian Community.
If you can't come, please join us in this full and unbroken retransmission...
...of the visit of the Pope, which Canal 9 will start very early on Saturday.
That's all for us. Good night. Tomorrow more.