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00:00:13The death toll from the tragedy of the high-speed rail in Toledo
00:00:16has risen to 69, and 50 injured people remain
00:00:19hospitalized. Cranes continue to work at the accident site to
00:00:23recover and analyze the train cars that derailed
00:00:25at
00:00:28speed.
00:00:45Puente, he says that it is not yet time, that it is still that ordered him to resume the journey normally, the leaked conversations
00:00:49still leave open questions about the accident and the 17 minutes in which
00:00:53it could have been avoided.
00:00:56Pedro Sánchez insists that the causes will be clarified and
00:01:00it will be about safety, and from the PP, Núñez Feijó warns that political
00:01:03responsibilities are essential. The union of
00:01:07train drivers regrets the leaking of the
00:01:10Party, who was now the president of audios today, when they are precisely on strike across the entire network to demand structural changes in
00:01:14safety.
00:01:16And today in Tarragona, inside the Joan XXIII hospital, a
00:01:20man shot dead a patient. He was an injured person who was
00:01:23recovering from an attempted homicide two weeks ago in Salou. The police
00:01:27are investigating it and linking it to organized crime.
00:01:33Christine Lagarde will leave the presidency of the European Central Bank in February,
00:01:36earlier than expected, today the institution maintained interest
00:01:40rates.
00:01:45Monchi banned the arrival of Eder Sarabia to the Espanyol bench,
00:01:48defending how Manolo González was
00:01:52of trains becomes manual, pending dismissed, the same dressing room after the defeat in
00:01:54Cestao.
00:02:20It is the town closest to the accident site,
00:02:25Good afternoon, today is a day of mourning and much work still on the high-speed tracks.
00:02:29The train accident happened yesterday. The death toll has
00:02:32increased by one more death, now the balance is
00:02:3669, there are 50 injured people who remain hospitalized in various
00:02:40levels of severity. And at the scene, throughout the night,
00:02:43cranes have been working to recover the derailed
00:02:46wagons, a job that is still ongoing now.
00:02:50d'ara.
00:02:52That's right, there's still a lot of work to do here. In fact, just a few minutes ago,
00:02:56a new crane arrived here that will help with the tasks
00:03:00of extracting the railway remains that have been scattered all over
00:03:04the terrain after yesterday's serious accident. At this point, there are more than
00:03:07900 members of the emergency and security forces. In
00:03:11this advanced command center, we are talking about the Civil Guard, the Military
00:03:14Emergency Unit, the National Police and Civil Protection, who are the only ones
00:03:18authorized to advance beyond this point, because here begins
00:03:21an entire radius in which the area closest to this railway accident
00:03:25has been cordoned off. It has been by order of the judge
00:03:28who has taken over the investigation. Instruction Court number
00:03:312 of Orgaz, which has also decreed
00:03:34AM, and will be repeated the secrecy of the proceedings around this new railway accident, wants
00:03:37to avoid as much as possible the manipulation of the remains that are being meticulously extracted
00:03:40since yesterday, as we said, more than
00:03:44900 people are working here on the one hand to try to find
00:03:47clues that explain what happened yesterday, what are the circumstances of this accident, but
00:03:51also to try to locate more human remains that lead to the
00:03:55identification of more fatal victims, for the moment the Civil Guard has received
00:03:5964 reports of missing persons, but they already
00:04:02warned us that there could be more, and they have set up several points to collect DNA
00:04:05samples from relatives, in any case here this meticulous manual search is being
00:04:09carried out by agents of the security forces and
00:04:13also by the canine unit,
00:04:16canina,
00:04:19the canine service of the Civil Guard has moved here with its
00:04:22dogs to first cordon off the area and
00:04:26once it is secured and cordoned off, they will work with the dogs. For us,
00:04:36we can now explain in more
00:04:38it worries the users of detail what the sequence of events was, a lot of information has been provided
00:04:41by the recorded conversations between the control center and the
00:04:44train drivers.
00:04:47That's right, and they allow us to reconstruct the sequence of events, which,
00:04:51by the way, has certain similarities to another accident that occurred
00:04:55two years ago at Conca station, involving another high-speed train. This accident
00:04:59the Spanish did not cause any fatalities, but
00:05:02it is interesting to know that the Railway Accident Investigation Commission
00:05:06of the Ministry of Public Works, after analyzing those incidents, requested
00:05:10that additional safety measures be implemented,
00:05:13in case, as happened here, the main safety
00:05:15system failed and it was necessary to perform this so-called "marcha a la vista" (visual march), this
00:05:19manual system in which some red
00:05:22traffic lights had to be passed. This was requested more than a year and a half ago, but there has still been
00:05:26no change in the protocols. In any case, this investigation continues and now we
00:05:30clearly have this sequence of events after these audios were leaked
00:05:33yesterday evening, this is what happened yesterday from 8:30
00:05:37in the morning when this began to unfold.
00:05:41desencadenar aquesta.
00:05:55is a safety system for both tracks and trains that prevents any human error.
00:05:59Imagine that if, for example, a train driver is
00:06:02distracted for more than 10 seconds, the train would automatically stop, which is
00:06:06very, very difficult for this system to fail,
00:06:09but it was not the first time. Without going further,
00:06:13the president of Irio warned the Senate about it in January, only three
00:06:16weeks ago. It is a safe but quite
00:06:19old system. The system dates back to 1992 and they are in the process of
00:06:22changing it for a more modern one.
00:06:26Right now, work was being done,
00:06:30it is possible that the failure of the ECB system is related to the
00:06:34works currently being carried out to adapt another signaling
00:06:36system. When the safety system fails, the trains
00:06:39stop, as also happened yesterday, if the train.
00:06:55gave an error, the control center decided not to wait, it activated plan
00:06:59B, the lateral signaling block, that is, the control
00:07:04communication with Atocha and the traffic lights. This blocking system, that's
00:07:08why it's called signaling blocking, will not open a traffic light
00:07:11until this traffic light knows that the next section until the next traffic light is clear.
00:07:15There must be an audio where, in principle,
00:07:19in principle, the control center tells him: yes, yes, you can proceed with
00:07:23all trains, I have the traffic light red, don't worry, I authorize you to pass it red, disconnect and reconnect
00:07:27the
00:07:30LZB resume normal operation under
00:07:33BSL with normal operation, with normal operation,
00:07:37okay, another error, doing it with normal operation
00:07:41not with "marcha a la vista" (visual march) which implies that trains cannot run
00:07:45at more than 40 km per hour. Kilometers to the
00:07:48south there was another train stopped,
00:07:51Irio.
00:07:54LZB.
00:07:58It's not as easy as a computer, a mobile phone or equipment to restart
00:08:02the journey. And I'm sure that the poor train driver was getting
00:08:05audible warnings, computer warnings saying: Are
00:08:09you sure? because the train itself protects itself.
00:08:12appears on the screens of the Atocha control center, in addition to the circulation managers,
00:08:16there is a supervisor. For 17 minutes
00:08:19the AB advanced and no one stopped it. Traveling at 200
00:08:23km per hour, it would have needed 2 km to
00:08:26brake.
00:08:29This is the reconstruction of the facts with the data we have, but many
00:08:32questions still remain unanswered. The Spanish government immediately pointed to human
00:08:36error, but before that, the track safety system had failed. The
00:08:40first question, then, is why this system
00:08:43failed.
00:08:45That's right, a system that, as we just heard, the general director of Dirio denounced,
00:08:49had already caused several errors in recent
00:08:53months that had brought railway circulation to a halt. The first question, therefore,
00:08:56is what failed yesterday and why, after six minutes, the resumption
00:09:00of circulation of the six trains that had been stopped was authorized
00:09:04from the Atocha control center. Second
00:09:07unknown: why did the AB, upon receiving this authorization to circulate normally,
00:09:10and therefore at a maximum authorized speed of 200 km per
00:09:14hour, accept this authorization and not alert the control
00:09:18center, as the driver of another train did, who knew that what should have been done was
00:09:21the so-called "marcha a la vista" (visual march) and, therefore, at a maximum of 40 km per hour to have
00:09:25time to brake if an obstacle was detected, as was the case. Another
00:09:29unknown: why could the Irio train not restart?
00:09:33The company has said that its systems required more time after receiving
00:09:36authorization before restarting. The driver
00:09:40informed the control center of this,
00:09:43so they were aware that there was a stopped train and another train
00:09:47departing. Therefore, the last great unknown is why, in these 17 minutes
00:09:50from when the AB's circulation was authorized, knowing that the Irio was
00:09:54stopped, no one at this control center raised the alarm.
00:09:57At that moment, the operator we just heard was not alone, as there was
00:10:01a degraded safety situation, as it is called in railway
00:10:05jargon. This operator had support staff,
00:10:08an assistant, and also had a supervisor by his side, and
00:10:12besides all this, there is also the head of the room who controls, through a
00:10:16large screen, how the circulation is going on this entire railway line. This
00:10:20did not work yesterday and the tragedy ended up unfolding
00:10:23at this point, which, as we said, now only investigation personnel
00:10:27can access. The judge has also ordered that no images can be taken,
00:10:31which is why journalists cannot access it either. We have only been able to
00:10:34see in part some of the wagons that were being dismantled, and that is why
00:10:38the railway workers' unions today have expressed their
00:10:41indignation at the leaking of these audios between the control center and the
00:10:45train drivers.
00:10:47maquinistes.
00:10:49it is, uh, truly alarming, disrespectful, and
00:10:52irresponsible that content is leaked.
00:11:25Edo Batlles, we said earlier that the Civil Guard has received about sixty reports of
00:11:28missing persons.
00:11:32Yes, exactly, it is the first step that the relatives must follow to
00:11:36be able to identify some of their loved ones. In
00:11:40fact, this figure of sixty could still
00:11:43grow because what we know is that 24 of these
00:11:46victims were foreigners. Identification
00:11:49tasks are being carried out here at the Institute of Legal and Forensic
00:11:53Medicine in Toledo.
00:11:55just today, some victims have already
00:11:58been identified, although the judicial authority has not yet
00:12:02confirmed how many. In any case, these tasks
00:12:05will not end today, mainly due to the state
00:12:09of the bodies after this accident, and also
00:12:13because so far, only 52 bodies of the
00:12:1769 confirmed victims have arrived
00:12:20at this Institute of Legal and Forensic Medicine in Toledo. Meanwhile,
00:12:23in hospitals, the number of injured is also decreasing. If this
00:12:27morning, for example, there were 41 injured in the
00:12:31Toledo hospital, now there are 38, 15 of whom are in the
00:12:34intensive care unit.
00:12:38Thank you, Edu. The accident has shocked everyone, but very
00:12:41directly the small town of Urda.
00:12:45and yesterday the residents rushed to help the injured and the emergency
00:12:49teams.
00:12:51Urda woke up today with a lot of fog, a lot of consternation.
00:13:27In a small town like this, the butcher is also a councilor, his phone
00:13:31doesn't stop ringing, people want to make coffees and and things like that,
00:13:35take water and milk, let's see, because there are 500 people at ground zero,
00:13:39okay, he went to open the doors of the pavilion and coordinate the help,
00:13:42he also took a few chickens and
00:13:46e
00:13:49took everything to the pavilion and there we were all day making
00:13:52sandwiches to treat the wounded. Another of the most
00:13:56sought-after residents is the pharmacist, today he was able to reopen, after
00:14:00he emptied half the pharmacy yesterday. Well, the
00:14:03serums ran out, gauze,
00:14:06uh, the bandages, uh, the opioids. I was on the front
00:14:09line and I saw images that I don't wish on
00:14:13anyone. The truth is that one feels proud to be
00:14:17mayor of these people. Today we will try to assume that
00:14:20pain and let time pass little by little to
00:14:24digest it. Urda is today a town occupied by police, emergency
00:14:27teams and media from
00:14:30all over.
00:14:33A lot of international attention, Norwegians are actually very,
00:14:36that is, they love Spaniards very much and come on vacation
00:14:40here in Spain. Urda is now part of the dark history of railway
00:14:43accidents in the country, but this small municipality in Castilla-La Mancha will also
00:14:47be remembered for the solidarity shown by all its
00:14:55Due to official mourning, the electoral pre-campaign events have been suspended, but
00:14:58the accident continues to be the focus of the discourse of the different political leaders. Today, the
00:15:02popular candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijó, has traveled to the Urda command
00:15:06center, and Pedro Sánchez, Paul Marçà, has participated in the secopi in
00:15:09Toledo.
00:15:13Yes, this meeting at first hour this morning wanted
00:15:17to be this body, this secopi that was also following the tasks that are being
00:15:20carried out in the management of this emergency. Immediately after, Sánchez returned
00:15:24to Madrid where he wanted to visit the Dif
00:15:28control center at Atocha station, also one of the key points
00:15:32in the investigation of what happened in this accident, and there he was able
00:15:35to participate in the minute of silence that was held in memory of the victims, a
00:15:39Sánchez who again guarantees that here they will work day and night to
00:15:43clearly explain what happened to cause this
00:15:46accident and who has assured that the necessary improvements
00:15:49will be made in terms of safety to guarantee that no more accidents
00:15:53of these characteristics will be repeated. Who today has
00:15:57also been able to visit this advanced command center is the leader
00:16:00of the Popular Party Alberto Núñez Feijó who has been here accompanied
00:16:04by the Manchego president Emiliano García Paje, a fact that
00:16:08reproaches the executive for not assuming political responsibilities, but
00:16:11instead directly pointing to one of the Adif
00:16:15workers. It is true that Feijó has not openly demanded
00:16:18the resignation of Minister Óscar
00:16:22the moment for the victims, but Feijó says that what is in question is the
00:16:26safety of the Spanish railway network's safety
00:16:29system and has questioned the qualification of the people that
00:16:33Sánchez has put in charge of the Ministry of Transport, by
00:16:37the way. Just minutes ago, the COE, the Spanish
00:16:40employers' association, confirmed that among the fatal victims of this accident is Fátima Báñez,
00:16:44the former Minister of Labor of the Popular
00:16:47the Spanish Employers' Association
00:16:49Foundation.
00:16:51All the institutions that belong to the state, from the small
00:16:54municipality to the government of Spain, are working day
00:16:58and night not only to respond to the
00:17:01families of the victims, but of course also to clarify every last
00:17:05detail of this tragedy and of course to reinforce
00:17:09safety so that this does not happen again. More than 100 deaths
00:17:13in two high-speed train accidents
00:17:17in 8 months and on the same railway
00:17:20corridor
00:17:22leads to a questioning of our current railway
00:17:26system. Political responsibilities cannot be assumed once
00:17:29an investigation has concluded. In my
00:17:32opinion, political responsibilities are not optional, they
00:17:36are.
00:17:42the pressure on Sánchez also comes from the parties that have supported him this
00:17:46legislature, Broad Front, Esquerra and Podemos have demanded the appearance of the
00:17:49Minister of Transport in Congress. Josep Capella will give us more
00:17:52details.
00:17:55In the midst of the electoral pre-campaign and with the chamber
00:17:58dissolved, several parties are demanding clarifications
00:18:02and explanations here, from the
00:18:05permanent deputation. There they want, for example,
00:18:08Esquerra and Podemos want Minister Óscar Puente
00:18:11to appear. Gabriel Rofián has written on social media that one
00:18:15cannot only point to one person and demands
00:18:18political responsibilities, not just interested
00:18:21audio leaks. Also, the
00:18:25candidate of the Broad Front, Ada Colau, demands
00:18:29transparency and that whoever comes to Congress
00:18:32to give these explanations. On the other
00:18:35hand, Vox, which was the only party that did not suspend the
00:18:38pre-campaign, has filed a complaint against the Minister of
00:18:42Transport, against Óscar Puente, whom they accuse of alleged
00:18:45crimes of negligent homicide and
00:18:49serious injury.
00:18:52Precisely, in Congress this afternoon a minute of silence was held for the
00:18:55victims of the railway tragedy. In the absence of the
00:18:58president of the chamber, two vice-presidents, one from the PP and another from the PSOE, have
00:19:02presided over
00:19:03the act.
00:19:07Also, in parliament a minute of silence has been held for the victims of the accident and
00:19:11the president Josep Rull, members of the board and parliamentary
00:19:15groups, and on behalf of the government, the Minister of Justice Ramon
00:19:18Espadaler have participated. Like the chamber, the flags of the Palau de la Generalitat,
00:19:22as well as those of the Barcelona City Council are at half-
00:19:24mast.
00:19:27This accident forces us to ask how the development of the high-speed
00:19:31network in Spain has been carried out. The priority has been the growth of
00:19:35lines. This has meant that the investment to lay new tracks has been much
00:19:38higher than that dedicated to maintaining the ones that already
00:19:40existed.
00:19:43Investment in laying high-speed tracks in the state has far exceeded
00:19:47in recent years that allocated to network maintenance, a
00:19:50conservation that, after two fatal accidents in 10 months, is
00:19:54more than ever under the magnifying glass. In the last 15 years,
00:19:57Adif has been increasing spending each year to maintain high
00:20:00speed. This year it will exceed 500 million euros for the first
00:20:03time, but investment in new infrastructure is still far
00:20:07superior. The European Commission compares these figures with those of other
00:20:10countries and shows that Spain has spent much less on improving high
00:20:14speed than France, Italy, or Germany, with percentages
00:20:17above 30%. For experts, maintenance is
00:20:21key.
00:20:24However, in Europe we are not having serious accidents and in Spain we have had two in less than a year,
00:20:27so there is a basic problem that will have to be solved
00:20:31somehow. Here there is a whole wrong approach to
00:20:36railway, it is very clear that what should be done is not being
00:20:40done. The entry of new operators into high-speed rail has intensified
00:20:44the use of the network, although for the competition commission there is still
00:20:47room to use the infrastructure more. If everything is planned
00:20:50correctly and the system is dimensioned to assume that increase
00:20:54in service, in principle there should be no problem. In any case, the accident in January,
00:20:57as well as speed limits on some lines, have caused
00:21:01passenger numbers to drop. After four years of growth,
00:21:05in the first six months of the year, high-speed rail carried 18.6
00:21:08million passengers, 22% less than
00:21:12in the same period last year, a
00:21:15more pronounced decrease on the Andalusia line, but
00:21:19also on the Barcelona-Madrid line, the busiest
00:21:21one.
00:21:23transitada.
00:21:26In the midst of this debate about railway safety maintenance, today Renfe train drivers
00:21:29are on strike. The strike was already planned, and the CMAF
00:21:33union decided to maintain it despite it being the day after the tragic
00:21:36accident. Let's go to Sants Station in Barcelona. Marta Xidó, what are
00:21:39they demanding?
00:21:43Well, the main demand of the train drivers is this railway
00:21:47safety, that a protocol of action be decreed. For example, in case of meteorological
00:21:50alerts, that it establishes who should notify whom in case of
00:21:54risk, that more train drivers be hired and also that trains be more reliable and that
00:21:57technical problems with rolling stock be ended. They also want the
00:22:01protocol to be maintained in case of run-overs and that there be a direct line between the unions and
00:22:05the state railway safety agency and the labor inspection, measures
00:22:08that were already agreed upon, but which they say are not being implemented. SEMF, the majority union
00:22:12is the one that has called this strike, but the minority ones have not supported it and Renfe
00:22:16calls it an unjustified strike.
00:22:20It had been almost nine months since the last train driver strike, then for the Ademuz de Gelida
00:22:24accidents, it was called off after an agreement with the
00:22:27ministry that provided for more investment in maintenance and more workers, among
00:22:30others. Today's strike, called days ago, unfortunately comes
00:22:34the day after another fatal accident. The majority union has decided to
00:22:38maintain it.
00:22:47for not taking sufficient measures to prevent them.
00:22:50of driving, we are on a strike day to show our
00:22:53strong rejection against
00:22:56all the responsible parties and all the managers of this
00:23:00sector. They demand mandatory compliance protocols in the face of
00:23:03meteorological alerts. In early October, Catalan train drivers already
00:23:07refused to circulate due to the heavy rains that affected the country due to the lack of
00:23:11safety guarantees. They also demand more hirings, more reliable trains and
00:23:14that attention to train drivers who have experienced run-overs not be cut.
00:23:18The rest of the unions, however...
00:23:35says they have done their part and that many demands are not their competence.
00:23:39Rodalies assures that the network has improved since
00:23:42January. There is clearly an improvement in the last two storms
00:23:46and also, I'm not saying it, I mean the experts say
00:23:50that they have been more important storms with a more
00:23:53significant impact in terms of adverse
00:23:57weather, and I think the commuter rail network has had a
00:24:00clearly much better performance than what it had in
00:24:03January. In Catalonia, minimum services are being
00:24:07met with only a few minor
00:24:09incidents.
00:24:13In fact, these incidents have occurred in very few cases during rush hour this
00:24:17morning, with minimum services decreed at 60.6%
00:24:21between 6 AM and 9:30
00:24:24from 5 PM until 8:30
00:24:28PM. For the rest of the day, one out of three trains runs. As for
00:24:32high-speed rail, minimum services are at
00:24:3473%.
00:24:38Many users this morning did not want to take any chances, aware that there was
00:24:42a train driver strike, they sought alternatives and stations like
00:24:46Lleida had less traffic than usual. In the capital of
00:24:50Segrià, minimum services were fulfilled on Abant trains with
00:24:53destination Barcelona. The 8 AM train, however, was covered by road
00:24:57with a bus due to the absence of the train driver. Also, some
00:25:01users have had to change their ticket. I had to
00:25:04change it for tomorrow at 7 in the morning. But well, with
00:25:08three small children I did not want, I did not want to
00:25:10risk it. At Girona station similar image,
00:25:14the agreed service was offered and with fewer passengers, all because it is a
00:25:18holiday for Sant Narcís. I have to go to Barcelona today
00:25:22for a medical appointment that I had to postpone because the
00:25:26day they had given me first was already gone and today it is also
00:25:29gone, it always happens, so and even if nothing
00:25:33had happened, we would still come with a bit of fear in case it comes out, if it doesn't come out,
00:25:37no serious incident either in the regional trains, where the
00:25:40protest is also taking place in Sant Vicenç de Calders, the day has been lived
00:25:44almost normally, with loudspeakers announcing delays
00:25:47of 20 minutes on average, in the morning, I already turned on the radio to
00:25:51see how it was because, well, I went to sleep and I already
00:25:55heard something that wasn't right, a situation
00:25:58practically identical at the Clot station, no queues, no
00:26:02crowds, no last-minute surprises.
00:26:06On the other hand, the other side of the coin was, for example,
00:26:08this, an endless queue to get a seat on
00:26:12one of the buses that connect the Maresme with Barcelona. Even
00:26:16though they are full every day, today they have had even more
00:26:19demand.
00:26:22The unreliability of trains makes many users take the bus, and this
00:26:26makes them always very full. In Maresme, for example, many passengers have to
00:26:30travel standing or sitting on the floor, a fact that, as has been recently seen in
00:26:33Montseny, can be very dangerous. Users are
00:26:36fed up.
00:26:38They have been denouncing the same situation for years. After patiently
00:26:42waiting to get on a bus, many people have to stand, sit on
00:26:45the stairs or squeeze into any available corner.
00:26:49They complain about the risks it poses to
00:26:52safety. Teresa knows this very well. She was sitting on the
00:26:55back stairs, she ended up with a broken nose, and upon arriving in
00:26:59Barcelona, a very sudden braking makes me'. and
00:27:02I am catapulted with all my weight, with time to think what
00:27:06will break, my jaw, my nose or my
00:27:09lip. Teresa is part of the Millorem-bus baix Maresma platform
00:27:13which has already launched a campaign following the Montseny accident, denouncing the
00:27:17danger of traveling like this, demanding to be able to sit and with a
00:27:20seatbelt. We are afraid because a decisive
00:27:24effect of the driver, for whatever
00:27:27reason, on a highway, on the C32 at 80 km
00:27:30per hour, people will die. Buses
00:27:34do not have the obligation, which is a paradox, to have a seatbelt in
00:27:38each of the seats, not even those in front, the two front rows
00:27:42are for the most vulnerable people, not even here
00:27:45do they have the obligation to wear a seatbelt. Now the government is considering taking measures
00:27:49such as prohibiting people from traveling standing on some interurban buses, but has not specified on
00:27:53which ones. From the Association for the promotion of public transport,
00:27:56they warn that it is necessary to guarantee that everyone has
00:27:58access. If we change the regulations, we reduce
00:28:02the capacity of the buses, we will leave people behind
00:28:05and that is something we cannot allow because then it will be people who
00:28:08will go looking for a car. Moventis, the company that operates the
00:28:12express lines in Maresme, assures that more buses and drivers could be
00:28:15available if planned in advance, but that this decision must
00:28:19be made by the Generalitat. The queues, standing, the
00:28:22saturation in general of the express bus lines has its origin largely
00:28:26here, the poor functioning of the regional train service,
00:28:30especially the uncertainty of not knowing how it will go, has made many people abandon the train
00:28:33and take the bus to go to work or study. It is necessary
00:28:37to remember, however, that the capacity of a train is about a thousand people, while the
00:28:41maximum of a bus is
00:28:54shook this morning the Joan 23 Hospital in Tarragona.
00:28:58A man entered a patient's room and shot him dead.
00:29:02The facts are related to organized crime, but for now there have been no
00:29:06arrests. A few minutes after 3 in the
00:29:10morning, an armed person shot and killed a patient admitted
00:29:13to the Joan 23 Hospital in Tarragona and fled. The victim
00:29:17was admitted because they had shot him a few days ago in
00:29:20Salou, presumably due to a gang fight. In
00:29:24the room was also the victim's wife who was treated for a nervous
00:29:28breakdown. Witnesses on the floor say they didn't
00:29:31hear anything. And well, given that there was
00:29:34this shooting today, we found out about it last night,
00:29:38we didn't hear any shots or anything. The Minister
00:29:41of Health, Olga Pener, visited the center to support the workers
00:29:45who received psychological care. The criminal
00:29:48investigation division of the Mossos d'Esquadra is investigating the
00:29:52shooting, at this time it is under summary secrecy, but what they want to know is
00:29:55how this armed hitman entered the hospital at 3 in the morning.
00:29:58Minister Pener gave a detail that could be key.
00:30:02The hospital has the usual security services and they were
00:30:06active at that moment, attending to another case that was
00:30:09at the hospital at that moment that we don't know if it has a relationship
00:30:13with this, so they are investigating it. There are still no
00:30:16arrests and the events worry the workers who have converted the
00:30:20labor demand into a minute of silence for the victims of the train
00:30:24and today's events. For now there is uncertainty because we
00:30:27don't know, I think we have to let the investigators
00:30:31work. and tell us what happened, it is undeniable that any event
00:30:35of this type is worrying, obviously it is worrying, it worries me, it worries people,
00:30:40the hospital. Minister Pener said that security
00:30:44protocols will be reviewed, but that the events will not affect the visiting
00:30:47regime for patients' families, because it is an exceptional
00:30:58of Vic this morning.