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On that Saturday, we were going to a friend's wedding…
…and she went to Valencia to change some clothes that didn't fit her.
And Amparo... "mom went to Valencia"
We waited a bit, we called home and her cell phone, but we didn't find her.
I thought it was better not to enter, because I wouldn't be able to recognize her, and I didn't want to keep a bad image of hers...
So I didn't let my son in.
I didn't see my wife.
On July 3rd 2006, the worst subway crash in Spain history occured in Valencia. 43 people died and 47 were injured.
Amongst we all, with a spirit of citizenship, we will work...
...to be with the victims and solve everything they need from us...
...a society that knows how to behave in critical moments, of great commotion
...with responsibilty, serenity, seriously, everybody working on our task.
Councilor Juan Cotino came to the morgue, in the room we were in…
…and gave us his condolences. Cotino. He told my son, 'call me for anything you need'. Mr Cotino.
And later he came home and told us again.
There were two or three occupied rooms. He entered all of them.
I don't know what he told to others. What he told me was that, anything, anytime, anyhow…
…if we needed something…
He gave me his personal card. In fact, I have his personal number in my phone agenda.
Juan Cotino was in my house, with a councilor from Torrent town hall...
…to check on us. They called me to tell me they wanted to come…
…and honestly, after they left, I realised what they had really come for.
Victims' families have taken a long time to speak and tell what happened.
It's insulting, the fact that the Councilor of Agriculture at the time, Juan Cotino, and current President of Valencian Parliament…
…went house by house, offering jobs as an exchange for silence.
On one side they were offering a job for my son...
They came well prepared, they knew us perfectly...
…they knew that my son had studied Business Adminsitration...
…they knew everything. And they offered him a job…
…but on the other side they asked us if we were going to take legal action…
I don't know how to judge this way of supporting people.
Some of the victims with whom they talked felt reasonably insulted.
Other people didn't, we must understand each one's situation.
But I do think that Valencian Government tried to buy the victims' silence…
…by offering them jobs and economic compensations besides those set by the travellers' insurance…
…in a behavior which I don't know if I would describe as typical of the mafia, but...
He called me 4 or 6 days later...
He called me to know if I had reconsidered my point on the conversation we had had…
…and I told him not to call me again about this issue, and that we would do what we considered appropriate.
The fact that the Agriculture Councilor, regardless of how pious as he was, visited the families, it has an explanation…
…which is an order from the Valencian President.
There was a crisis cabinet, made up with President Camps, Councilor Cotino and the chief of legal services.
They designed a politic, economic and legal strategy, to cover something that they obviously had to talk about.
Our commitment is to help in every aspect those people having a bad time, to solve any issue that affects them directly.
Five years waiting for Camps. The President hasn't met them yet.
Families needed something more than an economic compensation, they needed a moral reparation and an explanation.
The decision of meeting the victims, face to face, giving them comfort or a word of affection…
…or listening to what he had to listen, which comes with his roster...
…is a matter of humanity, nothing else.
Maybe it's simpler, I've never considered it.
What if we are facing a coward, plain and simple? A coward who doesn't want to face such a dramatic situation.
Valencian President must stand for everything, for good and bad, and face the consequences.
And this sir hasn't ever faced them.
He is a coward. He has acted like a coward.
He doesn't deserve to be trated as 'Right Honourable'.
He is not.
I had a meeting with President Camps, when I was the Association president.
I had two meetings with Vice-president Victor Campos. And in between I met the President privately.
A few days after the firs meeting with the Vice-president, he phoned me.
He told me, 'come up here, I want to talk to you'.
Holy ***, what does this guy want? I was scared, honestly. I was very scared of them.
What are they capable of? Are they going to blackmail me? I was unemployed since September...
So I showed up there, and what I found was a trap meeting with Francisco Camps.
I was in the waiting room and both the President and the Vice-president came in.
And specifically about the question, 'are you going to meet us the victims?...
…he told me, 'we'll see'.
I thought that he had made it clear that he did have the intent to do it.
But the week after, in the second meeting with Vice-President, he said 'no'. Like this.
[Meeting with successor President Alberto Fabra] The President has received the Association of Victims of Metro.
Valencian Government has committed to examine the questions made by families and explain the arguments...
…which endorse why there is no need to reopen the inquiry.
We think that Government representatives had the idea that the Parliamentary Committee was well done...
...and that it was already endorsed by a judgment.
We've found out that your antecessor, who is absent today, Mr Camps...
…commissioned a report payed with public money to manipulate the testimonies given in the Inquiry Committee.
Given this fact, I ask you, ¿what measures are you going to take?
This is a very complicated issue, and I regret that you want to rummage in an accident
...which we've proved that was due to a speeding.
¿Did the members of People's Party know that those appearing in the Commiittee were indoctrinated?
Did the Committee President know this?
Did you know, Mr Maluenda, that the testimonies had been indoctrinated?
I don't think that any Committee President knwos which questions will be asked, let alone what is going to be answered.
Mr Maluenda, do you confirm that you didn't know the HM&Sanchis report? Do you confirm it?
[Juan Cotino] Ms Albiol, please Ms Albiol, it is not applicable to make questions from your seat.
You've made an assertion, Mr Maluenda answered, it's in the minutes and that's it.
We haven't heard their opinion because you have constantly hindered it.
But listen, this is the opinion of the president of the Victims' Association, Beatriz Garrote.
Mr deputy, Mr deputy...
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