After five days of shovelling mud in the devastation caused by floods, José Ribelles picked up handfuls of it and threw it at King Felipe.
“What do you expect — for us to tell him sweet nothings?” asked Ribelles, 23, a supermarket worker from Paiporta in the southeast Valencia region, where an angry crowd threw stones, sticks and insults at the king and Queen Letizia when they visited.
Shouts of “Murderers” and “Get out of here” accompanied the tirade of projectiles in Paiporta, the town worst hit by the disaster, where at least 70 people died. Police had to step in, some officers on horseback, to keep back the crowd of several dozen, some of whom were wielding shovels and poles. Two of the