Torres blames Clavijo for "absurd paranoia": "He believes there is a conspiracy against him"

The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, said this Wednesday that the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, has entered into "absurd paranoia" because "he believes there is a conspiracy of people against him and feels threatened."

In an interview on TVE, the minister, former Canarian president and general secretary of PSOE of Canarias, insisted that Clavijo "made a mistake" in managing the stop of the cruise ship MV Hondius in Tenerife, that "he has been cornered" and that he made "a tremendous mistake, a political mistake" that he does not know if it is "repairable."

He also stated that the Canarian president "then also talks about certain conspiratorial theories and theses, he believes there is a conspiracy of people against him and feels threatened; that is absurd paranoia."

As a consequence of that circumstance, Torres added, Clavijo "attacks others to try to defend himself and is exposed."

"Therefore," the minister concluded, "I ask him to reflect, to calm down, to analyze what has happened, to recognize that he has made a mistake, we can make mistakes, we are human beings." "He is already late in saying I made a mistake," he stressed.

The head of Territorial Policy believes that in this matter "there has been an unnecessary row" and "there has been alarmism," although he acknowledged that it is "human" for there to be concern in the Canary Islands about the arrival of the ship.

Ángel Víctor Torres reported that the Spanish citizen isolated yesterday in a high-level unit of the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid has a fever and symptoms of the disease, while the other 13 are asymptomatic.