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Valencia flood anniversary: Protesters demand regional leader’s resignation

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Spain’s eastern city of Valencia on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of floods that killed 229 people, and to denounce the handling of the disaster. Demonstrators, many carrying photos of the victims, called on regional leader Carlos Mazon to resign over what they say was the slow response to one of Europe’s deadliest natural disasters in decades.



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