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Carlos Mazon’s former Valencia region president should face trial for negligence after his handling the October 2024 flooding disaster, which claimed the lives of 230 people. Mazon quit his position in November of last year, after a year-long investigation into where he was on the fateful day. He spent several hours the day after the floods eating with a newspaper, …

Save the Children, a Spanish charity, says that 70,000 young people are still living in poor housing nearly six months after the October floods. The organisation also has warned many children cannot attend school ‘normally’ and fears the impact on their mental health and susceptibility to violence. Rodrigo Hernandez, the organization’s chief of emergency response, said, “The flood destroyed over …

SPAIN’S government has received a first payment of €100 million from the EU’s Solidarity Fund to pay for recovery work in flood-hit areas of Valencia. The sum is a far cry from the €4.4 billion that the country asked for, but evaluation of the bid will take ‘some months’ according to the European Commission. The €100 million is the maximum …

After two missing people were declared dead, the death toll in the Valencia floods disaster has reached 227. Francisco Ruiz Martinez of Montserrat (left) and Jose Javier Vicent Fas of Pedralba (right) have both been sentenced to death. Elizabeth Gil, from Cheste is the only person still officially missing. A Requena Court is still processing a request from her family. …