Spain prepare crash: Transport minister says he will not resign over catastrophe

On Friday Puente mentioned he was “not going to make use of any employee as a protect”.

However he mentioned “many questions” arose because of the tragedy and he needed to have a look at them “one after the other”.

“If the investigation exhibits there may be human error we’ll act in consequence of that,” he mentioned.

The conservative Folks’s Occasion joined requires Puente’s resignation after commerce union CSIF known as for a similar earlier this week.

However Puente mentioned on Friday he wouldn’t budge from his place.

“The straightforward factor for me can be to depart, however neither that matches with my character neither is it what the Prime Minister has requested me to do,” he mentioned.

“I really feel immense ache and immense disappointment for the victims and their relations… I can’t let this ache paralyse me although. We now have to search out options to this drawback.”

The nation is observing three days of mourning, because the households of victims and the survivors of the crash battle to understand the way it might have occurred.

A 24-year-old athlete and a former authorities minister are among the many victims of Wednesday’s catastrophe, however many households are nonetheless ready for info from authorities about their family members.

Esther San Emeterio, whose 54-year-old brother Pepe remains to be lacking, instructed reporters in Toledo, close to Urda, that officers had been forcing households to attend in “uncertainty”.

“We went to mattress crying, outraged and stuffed with disgrace,” she mentioned. “We’re determined and I would like all of Spain to know. How can they preserve us like this?”

Further reporting by Sergi Forcada Freixas