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[00:00:13] The death toll from the tragedy of the high-speed rail in Toledo
[00:00:16] has risen to 69, and 50 injured people remain
[00:00:19] hospitalized. Cranes continue to work at the accident site to
[00:00:23] recover and analyze the train cars that derailed
[00:00:25] at
[00:00:28] speed.
[00:00:45] Puente, he says that it is not yet time, that it is still that ordered him to resume the journey normally, the leaked conversations
[00:00:49] still leave open questions about the accident and the 17 minutes in which
[00:00:53] it could have been avoided.
[00:00:56] Pedro Sánchez insists that the causes will be clarified and
[00:01:00] it will be about safety, and from the PP, Núñez Feijó warns that political
[00:01:03] responsibilities are essential. The union of
[00:01:07] train drivers regrets the leaking of the
[00:01:10] Party, who was now the president of audios today, when they are precisely on strike across the entire network to demand structural changes in
[00:01:14] safety.
[00:01:16] And today in Tarragona, inside the Joan XXIII hospital, a
[00:01:20] man shot dead a patient. He was an injured person who was
[00:01:23] recovering from an attempted homicide two weeks ago in Salou. The police
[00:01:27] are investigating it and linking it to organized crime.
[00:01:33] Christine Lagarde will leave the presidency of the European Central Bank in February,
[00:01:36] earlier than expected, today the institution maintained interest
[00:01:40] rates.
[00:01:45] Monchi banned the arrival of Eder Sarabia to the Espanyol bench,
[00:01:48] defending how Manolo González was
[00:01:52] of trains becomes manual, pending dismissed, the same dressing room after the defeat in
[00:01:54] Cestao.
[00:02:20] It is the town closest to the accident site,
[00:02:25] Good afternoon, today is a day of mourning and much work still on the high-speed tracks.
[00:02:29] The train accident happened yesterday. The death toll has
[00:02:32] increased by one more death, now the balance is
[00:02:36] 69, there are 50 injured people who remain hospitalized in various
[00:02:40] levels of severity. And at the scene, throughout the night,
[00:02:43] cranes have been working to recover the derailed
[00:02:46] wagons, a job that is still ongoing now.
[00:02:50] d'ara.
[00:02:52] That's right, there's still a lot of work to do here. In fact, just a few minutes ago,
[00:02:56] a new crane arrived here that will help with the tasks
[00:03:00] of extracting the railway remains that have been scattered all over
[00:03:04] the terrain after yesterday's serious accident. At this point, there are more than
[00:03:07] 900 members of the emergency and security forces. In
[00:03:11] this advanced command center, we are talking about the Civil Guard, the Military
[00:03:14] Emergency Unit, the National Police and Civil Protection, who are the only ones
[00:03:18] authorized to advance beyond this point, because here begins
[00:03:21] an entire radius in which the area closest to this railway accident
[00:03:25] has been cordoned off. It has been by order of the judge
[00:03:28] who has taken over the investigation. Instruction Court number
[00:03:31] 2 of Orgaz, which has also decreed
[00:03:34] AM, and will be repeated the secrecy of the proceedings around this new railway accident, wants
[00:03:37] to avoid as much as possible the manipulation of the remains that are being meticulously extracted
[00:03:40] since yesterday, as we said, more than
[00:03:44] 900 people are working here on the one hand to try to find
[00:03:47] clues that explain what happened yesterday, what are the circumstances of this accident, but
[00:03:51] also to try to locate more human remains that lead to the
[00:03:55] identification of more fatal victims, for the moment the Civil Guard has received
[00:03:59] 64 reports of missing persons, but they already
[00:04:02] warned us that there could be more, and they have set up several points to collect DNA
[00:04:05] samples from relatives, in any case here this meticulous manual search is being
[00:04:09] carried out by agents of the security forces and
[00:04:13] also by the canine unit,
[00:04:16] canina,
[00:04:19] the canine service of the Civil Guard has moved here with its
[00:04:22] dogs to first cordon off the area and
[00:04:26] once it is secured and cordoned off, they will work with the dogs. For us,
[00:04:36] we can now explain in more
[00:04:38] it worries the users of detail what the sequence of events was, a lot of information has been provided
[00:04:41] by the recorded conversations between the control center and the
[00:04:44] train drivers.
[00:04:47] That's right, and they allow us to reconstruct the sequence of events, which,
[00:04:51] by the way, has certain similarities to another accident that occurred
[00:04:55] two years ago at Conca station, involving another high-speed train. This accident
[00:04:59] the Spanish did not cause any fatalities, but
[00:05:02] it is interesting to know that the Railway Accident Investigation Commission
[00:05:06] of the Ministry of Public Works, after analyzing those incidents, requested
[00:05:10] that additional safety measures be implemented,
[00:05:13] in case, as happened here, the main safety
[00:05:15] system failed and it was necessary to perform this so-called "marcha a la vista" (visual march), this
[00:05:19] manual system in which some red
[00:05:22] traffic lights had to be passed. This was requested more than a year and a half ago, but there has still been
[00:05:26] no change in the protocols. In any case, this investigation continues and now we
[00:05:30] clearly have this sequence of events after these audios were leaked
[00:05:33] yesterday evening, this is what happened yesterday from 8:30
[00:05:37] in the morning when this began to unfold.
[00:05:41] desencadenar aquesta.
[00:05:55] is a safety system for both tracks and trains that prevents any human error.
[00:05:59] Imagine that if, for example, a train driver is
[00:06:02] distracted for more than 10 seconds, the train would automatically stop, which is
[00:06:06] very, very difficult for this system to fail,
[00:06:09] but it was not the first time. Without going further,
[00:06:13] the president of Irio warned the Senate about it in January, only three
[00:06:16] weeks ago. It is a safe but quite
[00:06:19] old system. The system dates back to 1992 and they are in the process of
[00:06:22] changing it for a more modern one.
[00:06:26] Right now, work was being done,
[00:06:30] it is possible that the failure of the ECB system is related to the
[00:06:34] works currently being carried out to adapt another signaling
[00:06:36] system. When the safety system fails, the trains
[00:06:39] stop, as also happened yesterday, if the train.
[00:06:55] gave an error, the control center decided not to wait, it activated plan
[00:06:59] B, the lateral signaling block, that is, the control
[00:07:04] communication with Atocha and the traffic lights. This blocking system, that's
[00:07:08] why it's called signaling blocking, will not open a traffic light
[00:07:11] until this traffic light knows that the next section until the next traffic light is clear.
[00:07:15] There must be an audio where, in principle,
[00:07:19] in principle, the control center tells him: yes, yes, you can proceed with
[00:07:23] all trains, I have the traffic light red, don't worry, I authorize you to pass it red, disconnect and reconnect
[00:07:27] the
[00:07:30] LZB resume normal operation under
[00:07:33] BSL with normal operation, with normal operation,
[00:07:37] okay, another error, doing it with normal operation
[00:07:41] not with "marcha a la vista" (visual march) which implies that trains cannot run
[00:07:45] at more than 40 km per hour. Kilometers to the
[00:07:48] south there was another train stopped,
[00:07:51] Irio.
[00:07:54] LZB.
[00:07:58] It's not as easy as a computer, a mobile phone or equipment to restart
[00:08:02] the journey. And I'm sure that the poor train driver was getting
[00:08:05] audible warnings, computer warnings saying: Are
[00:08:09] you sure? because the train itself protects itself.
[00:08:12] appears on the screens of the Atocha control center, in addition to the circulation managers,
[00:08:16] there is a supervisor. For 17 minutes
[00:08:19] the AB advanced and no one stopped it. Traveling at 200
[00:08:23] km per hour, it would have needed 2 km to
[00:08:26] brake.
[00:08:29] This is the reconstruction of the facts with the data we have, but many
[00:08:32] questions still remain unanswered. The Spanish government immediately pointed to human
[00:08:36] error, but before that, the track safety system had failed. The
[00:08:40] first question, then, is why this system
[00:08:43] failed.
[00:08:45] That's right, a system that, as we just heard, the general director of Dirio denounced,
[00:08:49] had already caused several errors in recent
[00:08:53] months that had brought railway circulation to a halt. The first question, therefore,
[00:08:56] is what failed yesterday and why, after six minutes, the resumption
[00:09:00] of circulation of the six trains that had been stopped was authorized
[00:09:04] from the Atocha control center. Second
[00:09:07] unknown: why did the AB, upon receiving this authorization to circulate normally,
[00:09:10] and therefore at a maximum authorized speed of 200 km per
[00:09:14] hour, accept this authorization and not alert the control
[00:09:18] center, as the driver of another train did, who knew that what should have been done was
[00:09:21] the so-called "marcha a la vista" (visual march) and, therefore, at a maximum of 40 km per hour to have
[00:09:25] time to brake if an obstacle was detected, as was the case. Another
[00:09:29] unknown: why could the Irio train not restart?
[00:09:33] The company has said that its systems required more time after receiving
[00:09:36] authorization before restarting. The driver
[00:09:40] informed the control center of this,
[00:09:43] so they were aware that there was a stopped train and another train
[00:09:47] departing. Therefore, the last great unknown is why, in these 17 minutes
[00:09:50] from when the AB's circulation was authorized, knowing that the Irio was
[00:09:54] stopped, no one at this control center raised the alarm.
[00:09:57] At that moment, the operator we just heard was not alone, as there was
[00:10:01] a degraded safety situation, as it is called in railway
[00:10:05] jargon. This operator had support staff,
[00:10:08] an assistant, and also had a supervisor by his side, and
[00:10:12] besides all this, there is also the head of the room who controls, through a
[00:10:16] large screen, how the circulation is going on this entire railway line. This
[00:10:20] did not work yesterday and the tragedy ended up unfolding
[00:10:23] at this point, which, as we said, now only investigation personnel
[00:10:27] can access. The judge has also ordered that no images can be taken,
[00:10:31] which is why journalists cannot access it either. We have only been able to
[00:10:34] see in part some of the wagons that were being dismantled, and that is why
[00:10:38] the railway workers' unions today have expressed their
[00:10:41] indignation at the leaking of these audios between the control center and the
[00:10:45] train drivers.
[00:10:47] maquinistes.
[00:10:49] it is, uh, truly alarming, disrespectful, and
[00:10:52] irresponsible that content is leaked.
[00:11:25] Edo Batlles, we said earlier that the Civil Guard has received about sixty reports of
[00:11:28] missing persons.
[00:11:32] Yes, exactly, it is the first step that the relatives must follow to
[00:11:36] be able to identify some of their loved ones. In
[00:11:40] fact, this figure of sixty could still
[00:11:43] grow because what we know is that 24 of these
[00:11:46] victims were foreigners. Identification
[00:11:49] tasks are being carried out here at the Institute of Legal and Forensic
[00:11:53] Medicine in Toledo.
[00:11:55] just today, some victims have already
[00:11:58] been identified, although the judicial authority has not yet
[00:12:02] confirmed how many. In any case, these tasks
[00:12:05] will not end today, mainly due to the state
[00:12:09] of the bodies after this accident, and also
[00:12:13] because so far, only 52 bodies of the
[00:12:17] 69 confirmed victims have arrived
[00:12:20] at this Institute of Legal and Forensic Medicine in Toledo. Meanwhile,
[00:12:23] in hospitals, the number of injured is also decreasing. If this
[00:12:27] morning, for example, there were 41 injured in the
[00:12:31] Toledo hospital, now there are 38, 15 of whom are in the
[00:12:34] intensive care unit.
[00:12:38] Thank you, Edu. The accident has shocked everyone, but very
[00:12:41] directly the small town of Urda.
[00:12:45] and yesterday the residents rushed to help the injured and the emergency
[00:12:49] teams.
[00:12:51] Urda woke up today with a lot of fog, a lot of consternation.
[00:13:27] In a small town like this, the butcher is also a councilor, his phone
[00:13:31] doesn't stop ringing, people want to make coffees and and things like that,
[00:13:35] take water and milk, let's see, because there are 500 people at ground zero,
[00:13:39] okay, he went to open the doors of the pavilion and coordinate the help,
[00:13:42] he also took a few chickens and
[00:13:46] e
[00:13:49] took everything to the pavilion and there we were all day making
[00:13:52] sandwiches to treat the wounded. Another of the most
[00:13:56] sought-after residents is the pharmacist, today he was able to reopen, after
[00:14:00] he emptied half the pharmacy yesterday. Well, the
[00:14:03] serums ran out, gauze,
[00:14:06] uh, the bandages, uh, the opioids. I was on the front
[00:14:09] line and I saw images that I don't wish on
[00:14:13] anyone. The truth is that one feels proud to be
[00:14:17] mayor of these people. Today we will try to assume that
[00:14:20] pain and let time pass little by little to
[00:14:24] digest it. Urda is today a town occupied by police, emergency
[00:14:27] teams and media from
[00:14:30] all over.
[00:14:33] A lot of international attention, Norwegians are actually very,
[00:14:36] that is, they love Spaniards very much and come on vacation
[00:14:40] here in Spain. Urda is now part of the dark history of railway
[00:14:43] accidents in the country, but this small municipality in Castilla-La Mancha will also
[00:14:47] be remembered for the solidarity shown by all its
[00:14:55] Due to official mourning, the electoral pre-campaign events have been suspended, but
[00:14:58] the accident continues to be the focus of the discourse of the different political leaders. Today, the
[00:15:02] popular candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijó, has traveled to the Urda command
[00:15:06] center, and Pedro Sánchez, Paul Marçà, has participated in the secopi in
[00:15:09] Toledo.
[00:15:13] Yes, this meeting at first hour this morning wanted
[00:15:17] to be this body, this secopi that was also following the tasks that are being
[00:15:20] carried out in the management of this emergency. Immediately after, Sánchez returned
[00:15:24] to Madrid where he wanted to visit the Dif
[00:15:28] control center at Atocha station, also one of the key points
[00:15:32] in the investigation of what happened in this accident, and there he was able
[00:15:35] to participate in the minute of silence that was held in memory of the victims, a
[00:15:39] Sánchez who again guarantees that here they will work day and night to
[00:15:43] clearly explain what happened to cause this
[00:15:46] accident and who has assured that the necessary improvements
[00:15:49] will be made in terms of safety to guarantee that no more accidents
[00:15:53] of these characteristics will be repeated. Who today has
[00:15:57] also been able to visit this advanced command center is the leader
[00:16:00] of the Popular Party Alberto Núñez Feijó who has been here accompanied
[00:16:04] by the Manchego president Emiliano García Paje, a fact that
[00:16:08] reproaches the executive for not assuming political responsibilities, but
[00:16:11] instead directly pointing to one of the Adif
[00:16:15] workers. It is true that Feijó has not openly demanded
[00:16:18] the resignation of Minister Óscar
[00:16:22] the moment for the victims, but Feijó says that what is in question is the
[00:16:26] safety of the Spanish railway network's safety
[00:16:29] system and has questioned the qualification of the people that
[00:16:33] Sánchez has put in charge of the Ministry of Transport, by
[00:16:37] the way. Just minutes ago, the COE, the Spanish
[00:16:40] employers' association, confirmed that among the fatal victims of this accident is Fátima Báñez,
[00:16:44] the former Minister of Labor of the Popular
[00:16:47] the Spanish Employers' Association
[00:16:49] Foundation.
[00:16:51] All the institutions that belong to the state, from the small
[00:16:54] municipality to the government of Spain, are working day
[00:16:58] and night not only to respond to the
[00:17:01] families of the victims, but of course also to clarify every last
[00:17:05] detail of this tragedy and of course to reinforce
[00:17:09] safety so that this does not happen again. More than 100 deaths
[00:17:13] in two high-speed train accidents
[00:17:17] in 8 months and on the same railway
[00:17:20] corridor
[00:17:22] leads to a questioning of our current railway
[00:17:26] system. Political responsibilities cannot be assumed once
[00:17:29] an investigation has concluded. In my
[00:17:32] opinion, political responsibilities are not optional, they
[00:17:36] are.
[00:17:42] the pressure on Sánchez also comes from the parties that have supported him this
[00:17:46] legislature, Broad Front, Esquerra and Podemos have demanded the appearance of the
[00:17:49] Minister of Transport in Congress. Josep Capella will give us more
[00:17:52] details.
[00:17:55] In the midst of the electoral pre-campaign and with the chamber
[00:17:58] dissolved, several parties are demanding clarifications
[00:18:02] and explanations here, from the
[00:18:05] permanent deputation. There they want, for example,
[00:18:08] Esquerra and Podemos want Minister Óscar Puente
[00:18:11] to appear. Gabriel Rofián has written on social media that one
[00:18:15] cannot only point to one person and demands
[00:18:18] political responsibilities, not just interested
[00:18:21] audio leaks. Also, the
[00:18:25] candidate of the Broad Front, Ada Colau, demands
[00:18:29] transparency and that whoever comes to Congress
[00:18:32] to give these explanations. On the other
[00:18:35] hand, Vox, which was the only party that did not suspend the
[00:18:38] pre-campaign, has filed a complaint against the Minister of
[00:18:42] Transport, against Óscar Puente, whom they accuse of alleged
[00:18:45] crimes of negligent homicide and
[00:18:49] serious injury.
[00:18:52] Precisely, in Congress this afternoon a minute of silence was held for the
[00:18:55] victims of the railway tragedy. In the absence of the
[00:18:58] president of the chamber, two vice-presidents, one from the PP and another from the PSOE, have
[00:19:02] presided over
[00:19:03] the act.
[00:19:07] Also, in parliament a minute of silence has been held for the victims of the accident and
[00:19:11] the president Josep Rull, members of the board and parliamentary
[00:19:15] groups, and on behalf of the government, the Minister of Justice Ramon
[00:19:18] Espadaler have participated. Like the chamber, the flags of the Palau de la Generalitat,
[00:19:22] as well as those of the Barcelona City Council are at half-
[00:19:24] mast.
[00:19:27] This accident forces us to ask how the development of the high-speed
[00:19:31] network in Spain has been carried out. The priority has been the growth of
[00:19:35] lines. This has meant that the investment to lay new tracks has been much
[00:19:38] higher than that dedicated to maintaining the ones that already
[00:19:40] existed.
[00:19:43] Investment in laying high-speed tracks in the state has far exceeded
[00:19:47] in recent years that allocated to network maintenance, a
[00:19:50] conservation that, after two fatal accidents in 10 months, is
[00:19:54] more than ever under the magnifying glass. In the last 15 years,
[00:19:57] Adif has been increasing spending each year to maintain high
[00:20:00] speed. This year it will exceed 500 million euros for the first
[00:20:03] time, but investment in new infrastructure is still far
[00:20:07] superior. The European Commission compares these figures with those of other
[00:20:10] countries and shows that Spain has spent much less on improving high
[00:20:14] speed than France, Italy, or Germany, with percentages
[00:20:17] above 30%. For experts, maintenance is
[00:20:21] key.
[00:20:24] However, in Europe we are not having serious accidents and in Spain we have had two in less than a year,
[00:20:27] so there is a basic problem that will have to be solved
[00:20:31] somehow. Here there is a whole wrong approach to
[00:20:36] railway, it is very clear that what should be done is not being
[00:20:40] done. The entry of new operators into high-speed rail has intensified
[00:20:44] the use of the network, although for the competition commission there is still
[00:20:47] room to use the infrastructure more. If everything is planned
[00:20:50] correctly and the system is dimensioned to assume that increase
[00:20:54] in service, in principle there should be no problem. In any case, the accident in January,
[00:20:57] as well as speed limits on some lines, have caused
[00:21:01] passenger numbers to drop. After four years of growth,
[00:21:05] in the first six months of the year, high-speed rail carried 18.6
[00:21:08] million passengers, 22% less than
[00:21:12] in the same period last year, a
[00:21:15] more pronounced decrease on the Andalusia line, but
[00:21:19] also on the Barcelona-Madrid line, the busiest
[00:21:21] one.
[00:21:23] transitada.
[00:21:26] In the midst of this debate about railway safety maintenance, today Renfe train drivers
[00:21:29] are on strike. The strike was already planned, and the CMAF
[00:21:33] union decided to maintain it despite it being the day after the tragic
[00:21:36] accident. Let's go to Sants Station in Barcelona. Marta Xidó, what are
[00:21:39] they demanding?
[00:21:43] Well, the main demand of the train drivers is this railway
[00:21:47] safety, that a protocol of action be decreed. For example, in case of meteorological
[00:21:50] alerts, that it establishes who should notify whom in case of
[00:21:54] risk, that more train drivers be hired and also that trains be more reliable and that
[00:21:57] technical problems with rolling stock be ended. They also want the
[00:22:01] protocol to be maintained in case of run-overs and that there be a direct line between the unions and
[00:22:05] the state railway safety agency and the labor inspection, measures
[00:22:08] that were already agreed upon, but which they say are not being implemented. SEMF, the majority union
[00:22:12] is the one that has called this strike, but the minority ones have not supported it and Renfe
[00:22:16] calls it an unjustified strike.
[00:22:20] It had been almost nine months since the last train driver strike, then for the Ademuz de Gelida
[00:22:24] accidents, it was called off after an agreement with the
[00:22:27] ministry that provided for more investment in maintenance and more workers, among
[00:22:30] others. Today's strike, called days ago, unfortunately comes
[00:22:34] the day after another fatal accident. The majority union has decided to
[00:22:38] maintain it.
[00:22:47] for not taking sufficient measures to prevent them.
[00:22:50] of driving, we are on a strike day to show our
[00:22:53] strong rejection against
[00:22:56] all the responsible parties and all the managers of this
[00:23:00] sector. They demand mandatory compliance protocols in the face of
[00:23:03] meteorological alerts. In early October, Catalan train drivers already
[00:23:07] refused to circulate due to the heavy rains that affected the country due to the lack of
[00:23:11] safety guarantees. They also demand more hirings, more reliable trains and
[00:23:14] that attention to train drivers who have experienced run-overs not be cut.
[00:23:18] The rest of the unions, however...
[00:23:35] says they have done their part and that many demands are not their competence.
[00:23:39] Rodalies assures that the network has improved since
[00:23:42] January. There is clearly an improvement in the last two storms
[00:23:46] and also, I'm not saying it, I mean the experts say
[00:23:50] that they have been more important storms with a more
[00:23:53] significant impact in terms of adverse
[00:23:57] weather, and I think the commuter rail network has had a
[00:24:00] clearly much better performance than what it had in
[00:24:03] January. In Catalonia, minimum services are being
[00:24:07] met with only a few minor
[00:24:09] incidents.
[00:24:13] In fact, these incidents have occurred in very few cases during rush hour this
[00:24:17] morning, with minimum services decreed at 60.6%
[00:24:21] between 6 AM and 9:30
[00:24:24] from 5 PM until 8:30
[00:24:28] PM. For the rest of the day, one out of three trains runs. As for
[00:24:32] high-speed rail, minimum services are at
[00:24:34] 73%.
[00:24:38] Many users this morning did not want to take any chances, aware that there was
[00:24:42] a train driver strike, they sought alternatives and stations like
[00:24:46] Lleida had less traffic than usual. In the capital of
[00:24:50] Segrià, minimum services were fulfilled on Abant trains with
[00:24:53] destination Barcelona. The 8 AM train, however, was covered by road
[00:24:57] with a bus due to the absence of the train driver. Also, some
[00:25:01] users have had to change their ticket. I had to
[00:25:04] change it for tomorrow at 7 in the morning. But well, with
[00:25:08] three small children I did not want, I did not want to
[00:25:10] risk it. At Girona station similar image,
[00:25:14] the agreed service was offered and with fewer passengers, all because it is a
[00:25:18] holiday for Sant Narcís. I have to go to Barcelona today
[00:25:22] for a medical appointment that I had to postpone because the
[00:25:26] day they had given me first was already gone and today it is also
[00:25:29] gone, it always happens, so and even if nothing
[00:25:33] had happened, we would still come with a bit of fear in case it comes out, if it doesn't come out,
[00:25:37] no serious incident either in the regional trains, where the
[00:25:40] protest is also taking place in Sant Vicenç de Calders, the day has been lived
[00:25:44] almost normally, with loudspeakers announcing delays
[00:25:47] of 20 minutes on average, in the morning, I already turned on the radio to
[00:25:51] see how it was because, well, I went to sleep and I already
[00:25:55] heard something that wasn't right, a situation
[00:25:58] practically identical at the Clot station, no queues, no
[00:26:02] crowds, no last-minute surprises.
[00:26:06] On the other hand, the other side of the coin was, for example,
[00:26:08] this, an endless queue to get a seat on
[00:26:12] one of the buses that connect the Maresme with Barcelona. Even
[00:26:16] though they are full every day, today they have had even more
[00:26:19] demand.
[00:26:22] The unreliability of trains makes many users take the bus, and this
[00:26:26] makes them always very full. In Maresme, for example, many passengers have to
[00:26:30] travel standing or sitting on the floor, a fact that, as has been recently seen in
[00:26:33] Montseny, can be very dangerous. Users are
[00:26:36] fed up.
[00:26:38] They have been denouncing the same situation for years. After patiently
[00:26:42] waiting to get on a bus, many people have to stand, sit on
[00:26:45] the stairs or squeeze into any available corner.
[00:26:49] They complain about the risks it poses to
[00:26:52] safety. Teresa knows this very well. She was sitting on the
[00:26:55] back stairs, she ended up with a broken nose, and upon arriving in
[00:26:59] Barcelona, a very sudden braking makes me'. and
[00:27:02] I am catapulted with all my weight, with time to think what
[00:27:06] will break, my jaw, my nose or my
[00:27:09] lip. Teresa is part of the Millorem-bus baix Maresma platform
[00:27:13] which has already launched a campaign following the Montseny accident, denouncing the
[00:27:17] danger of traveling like this, demanding to be able to sit and with a
[00:27:20] seatbelt. We are afraid because a decisive
[00:27:24] effect of the driver, for whatever
[00:27:27] reason, on a highway, on the C32 at 80 km
[00:27:30] per hour, people will die. Buses
[00:27:34] do not have the obligation, which is a paradox, to have a seatbelt in
[00:27:38] each of the seats, not even those in front, the two front rows
[00:27:42] are for the most vulnerable people, not even here
[00:27:45] do they have the obligation to wear a seatbelt. Now the government is considering taking measures
[00:27:49] such as prohibiting people from traveling standing on some interurban buses, but has not specified on
[00:27:53] which ones. From the Association for the promotion of public transport,
[00:27:56] they warn that it is necessary to guarantee that everyone has
[00:27:58] access. If we change the regulations, we reduce
[00:28:02] the capacity of the buses, we will leave people behind
[00:28:05] and that is something we cannot allow because then it will be people who
[00:28:08] will go looking for a car. Moventis, the company that operates the
[00:28:12] express lines in Maresme, assures that more buses and drivers could be
[00:28:15] available if planned in advance, but that this decision must
[00:28:19] be made by the Generalitat. The queues, standing, the
[00:28:22] saturation in general of the express bus lines has its origin largely
[00:28:26] here, the poor functioning of the regional train service,
[00:28:30] especially the uncertainty of not knowing how it will go, has made many people abandon the train
[00:28:33] and take the bus to go to work or study. It is necessary
[00:28:37] to remember, however, that the capacity of a train is about a thousand people, while the
[00:28:41] maximum of a bus is
[00:28:54] shook this morning the Joan 23 Hospital in Tarragona.
[00:28:58] A man entered a patient's room and shot him dead.
[00:29:02] The facts are related to organized crime, but for now there have been no
[00:29:06] arrests. A few minutes after 3 in the
[00:29:10] morning, an armed person shot and killed a patient admitted
[00:29:13] to the Joan 23 Hospital in Tarragona and fled. The victim
[00:29:17] was admitted because they had shot him a few days ago in
[00:29:20] Salou, presumably due to a gang fight. In
[00:29:24] the room was also the victim's wife who was treated for a nervous
[00:29:28] breakdown. Witnesses on the floor say they didn't
[00:29:31] hear anything. And well, given that there was
[00:29:34] this shooting today, we found out about it last night,
[00:29:38] we didn't hear any shots or anything. The Minister
[00:29:41] of Health, Olga Pener, visited the center to support the workers
[00:29:45] who received psychological care. The criminal
[00:29:48] investigation division of the Mossos d'Esquadra is investigating the
[00:29:52] shooting, at this time it is under summary secrecy, but what they want to know is
[00:29:55] how this armed hitman entered the hospital at 3 in the morning.
[00:29:58] Minister Pener gave a detail that could be key.
[00:30:02] The hospital has the usual security services and they were
[00:30:06] active at that moment, attending to another case that was
[00:30:09] at the hospital at that moment that we don't know if it has a relationship
[00:30:13] with this, so they are investigating it. There are still no
[00:30:16] arrests and the events worry the workers who have converted the
[00:30:20] labor demand into a minute of silence for the victims of the train
[00:30:24] and today's events. For now there is uncertainty because we
[00:30:27] don't know, I think we have to let the investigators
[00:30:31] work. and tell us what happened, it is undeniable that any event
[00:30:35] of this type is worrying, obviously it is worrying, it worries me, it worries people,
[00:30:40] the hospital. Minister Pener said that security
[00:30:44] protocols will be reviewed, but that the events will not affect the visiting
[00:30:47] regime for patients' families, because it is an exceptional
[00:30:58] of Vic this morning.