The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has maintained that the railway tragedy of Urda (Toledo), in which at least 69 people died, "could have been avoided" and has blamed the Government for acting as a "mafioso Government" that, she denounced, has "taken it all" during these years in which they believed themselves "impune."
In statements to Telecinco, Ayuso stated that the case "demonstrates, first, that corruption kills, and second, that this could have been avoided, that all the money from European funds over these years has been lost." The regional leader added that "tens of billions have been lost because it has not been managed properly."
The Madrid president considered that these deaths could have been avoided and regretted that, as a consequence of this management, there are people "mutilated, who have lost a family member forever and whose lives have been cut short."
Criticism of infrastructure and the Executive's management
Ayuso also pointed out that this money "has been taken" and asked to focus, "and beware," on infrastructures such as AENA, the expansion of T4, Madrid airport and other state infrastructures, where, in her opinion, "there has been corruption" and "we must continue investigating."
In the same vein, she assured that there are infrastructures that are "obsolete" due to a "mafioso" Government that, she said, has not invested in recent years because they were "taking it all for themselves."
The president also criticized that Pedro Sánchez's Government has acted "in a sectarian manner" and has decided that neither the autonomous communities nor the Congress nor the Senate could "express an opinion on the matter" regarding European funds. "They wanted to keep all that money to make a historical collection that has never gone to public infrastructures," she indicated.
Accusations about an "international network of mafia and lobby"
Ayuso also lashed out at the "international network of mafia and lobby" that, she said, they are promoting in China, Dominican Republic or Venezuela. "They broke the separation of powers, they have tried to end the lives of judges, which the Ibero-American leaders who have come these days could not believe," she pointed out.
Finally, the regional leader accused the Government of using the "media button" from La Moncloa, which has "a shadow ministry of propaganda" and from which, she affirmed, they control "the regime's media, which they feed, and especially through RTVE."