It happened in a political gathering on a local television. The topic of the day could not be other than what happened in Valencia that October 29 that seems to have become eternal. The representative of the Popular Party, councilor in Yaiza and non-elected advisor in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, began his speech with an institutional tone, referring to his regret for the victims, the need for unity in these moments and the appropriateness of leaving the demand for responsibilities for later.
Despite that start of the serious and responsible politician's manual, the representative of the Popular Party, councilor in Yaiza and non-elected advisor in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, ended his speech stating that it could be that the destructive potential of the flood had been increased because the Government had eliminated more than thirty dams in Valencia.
Faced with my response, accusing him of lying to the audience by spreading an authentic hoax, he tried to excuse himself, taking refuge in the fact that he was saying what people were saying. Obviously, faced with a supposedly institutional intervention, but used to pour out an absolute falsehood, the debate became heated and from there the rest of the falsehoods of the Popular Party's argument began to emerge: the AEMET did not warn, the Hydrographic Confederation of the Júcar withdrew the red warning up to three times, Sánchez has left Valencia alone and so on until completing the panoply of false arguments with which it is intended to hide the criminal irresponsibility of Mazón and his government.
It was a very unpleasant discussion, both because of the lies poured out and because of his attempts to blow up the debate based on constant interruptions. I must admit that I left the station very touched, thinking about the indecency of lying, despising more than two hundred dead, trivializing the suffering of thousands of people. I left very touched thinking about that audience that has the right to know opposing interpretations and arguments but, above all, has the right to know certain facts and probably, after that debate, could be confused without knowing that the demolition of thirty dams is nothing more than a hoax, without being sure that the AEMET published a red warning and that the Júcar Confederation never withdrew its emergency warning.
I remembered at that moment that a few days before I was having coffee with party colleagues and an obnoxious person approached us, with the pertinent Spanish flag on his wrist, to tell us that he liked fruit and repeat it twice, a situation that I associated with Ayuso's tense Madrid but that I never thought I would experience in Lanzarote. I remembered the brainless people who attacked the authorities in Paiporta and I could only think about the unbreathable climate caused by lies, irresponsible hoaxes.
I thought that it is the lies of characters like Juan Monzón that cause types like the one with the flag to allow themselves to verbally attack a group of people, for the fact of recognizing them as socialist militants. Yes. The councilor of Yaiza and non-elected advisor of the Cabildo is called Juan Monzón and I name him without the slightest hope that he will be ashamed of his lies. I mention him so that when they see him, when they read his statements or listen to his comments, they know that he is lying and an alarm sounds and the warning Alert flashes. Hoax.