Thousands of Italians are residing in Valencia for study and work reasons, and the Farnesina reports that there are no victims among our fellow citizens . "We are fine," says Nicolò Vargiu, a 24-year-old from Cagliari, an Erasmus student of Medicine in Valencia, on the phone, like his colleagues Sara Argiolas, 23, and Gabriele Denotti, a twenty-three-year-old from Quartu. The other twelve students of the University of Cagliari, of different faculties, are also fine, all contacted by the Erasmus assistance network.
"The disaster is in the centers around the city, in the town of the boyfriend of an acquaintance of ours the victims were 31", says Nicolò. Tuesday evening and this morning , he says, "we received the message from the Civil Protection with the alarm on our cell phones warning us to stay at home, but there was damage to the purifier and the pipes and this unleashed panic throughout the city, so much so that supermarkets were stormed to stock up on water and food". His parents arrived from Cagliari: "The air connections have been restored, while the metro is flooded and many railway lines are unusable. My parents had to queue for hours to get into a taxi".
"It feels like we're reliving the worst moment of Covid, the lockdown," Nicolò continues. And that's what Sara and Gabriele say. "There are terrible images on TV, as on Instagram and TikTok. We are responding to the appeals of our colleagues at the University to lend a hand in collecting and sorting food, medicines and everything that can be useful to the displaced," says Sara Argiolas.
Gabriele Denotti also reports "a livid and gloomy atmosphere, constant alarms. The emergency is classified as level 3, the maximum is 4, but the authorities recommend staying at home . The University is closed until Monday".
The video shows images from Valencia, including supermarkets stormed and cars swept away by the mud.