"I was traveling on the previous train and, in the area of the accident, the carriage jumped so much that my laptop fell off the table."

Jonathan Gómez, Director of Tourism for the Málaga City Council, is still shaking all over. "It's horrible," he says as he looks at the ticket for the ... train he would have been on if he hadn't changed his ticket to the train just before the one that crashed. Moreover, Gómez recounts that he is alive by a miracle and provides an interesting testimony that justifies this thought. He recalls that "when we had already passed Córdoba, in the area where the tragedy occurred, we felt the train jump, causing the laptop I was working on to fall off the table." He states, still in disbelief about everything that happened and as time passes, that "something was possibly already wrong with the track that caused that movement that scared those of us on the train before the crashed one."

Gómez was headed to Madrid to finalize the preparations for the event presenting the new Tourism campaign scheduled for this Tuesday on the eve of the opening of the International Tourism Fair (Fitur), which will take place from January 21 to 25. An event that has been canceled due to the tragic crash. Still in shock, he reviews the initial ticket, the one he changed on Friday afternoon, and is even more moved when he checks that he was also traveling in carriage 6, the one that derailed, specifically in seat 11-A. "I am alive by a miracle," he emphasizes.

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The councilor for Tourism, Jacobo Florido, would also have traveled on the crashed train if he hadn't decided to change his ticket to the train leaving Málaga immediately after the one initially planned. In his case, he could no longer travel to Madrid because rail communication was suspended. "When I arrived at the station, they told me the departure had been canceled. I asked and they already told me about the tragic accident," he states.