Flag at half-mast as the Mayor of Málaga visits the Reina Sofía Hospital

The silence is overwhelming in the hallways, sadness floods the entire Mansion from the entrance, where the flags fly half-mast, drooping. In the municipal groups, on the second floor, the black mourning ribbons on all doors show what is being experienced inside and outside, the blow of the train accident in Adamuz. The three days of mourning decreed by the Government are strictly observed, and by instruction of the mayor of Málaga, Paco de la Torre, the full council commissions on Environment and Urban Planning, which were supposed to be last Monday, have been suspended, as well as those of Economy and Social Rights, which will move from Thursday to Friday. The previous ones, even, will jump to next Monday.

Not a complaint, not a press conference, not a debate, not a discussion. The political parties, like the citizens, are in mourning, and have also suspended the events they had planned as well as different meetings. "We are not in a position to debate under these circumstances," "it makes no sense that on such tough days we are discussing matters that are not really important," they explained.

The entire Corporation met on Monday on the main staircase in a three-minute silence event out of respect for the victims and their relatives and friends, and also for those injured in the tragic accident, in a means of transport, which as explained by the mayor of Málaga, Paco de la Torre, is used by many people from Málaga, including himself, for their trips to Madrid, which made the empathy even greater at this time. De la Torre advanced that he would visit the affected people from Málaga in Córdoba.

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The four municipal groups of the City Council, PSOE, PP, Con Málaga, and Vox, with black mourning ribbons at the doors of their offices.

De la Torre. Meeting with the mayor of Córdoba and visit to Reina Sofía

The mayor of Málaga, Paco de la Torre, met with the mayor of Córdoba, José María Bellido, at the doors of the Reina Sofía Hospital, along with the managing director, Francisco Triviño, and the medical director, Elena García, and the director of Nursing, Rocío Segura.

De la Torre emphasized that it was the moment, as the mayor of Málaga, to be with the affected people from Málaga, and he advanced that this year he would not go to the Tourism Fair of Fitur, as a sign of respect for the tragic event, where he indicated that the municipal technicians would continue doing their work.

At the Reina Sofía Hospital, the mayor was able to visit Emil Jonsson, the Swede residing in Benalmádena, who was traveling in the last carriage of the Iryo Málaga-Madrid train that crashed last Sunday, who suffered traumas but nothing that was life-threatening, as well as the family of the pregnant woman from Málaga who was in the ICU due to a severe cranioencephalic trauma, who was also traveling on the said train. "I have come to inquire about the hospitalized injured from Málaga, and to give company, love, and affection to the relatives who are dealing with the trauma of a very difficult situation," he affirmed, while praising the great work being done by the Reina Sofía Hospital in managing the catastrophe.