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María José do Pazo after the meeting with Pedro Sánchez. (EFE / Laundry)
The president of the Government, Pedro SanchezIt is committed to “work” on a list of claims by relatives of the twelve disappeared of the fisherman “Village of Pitanxo”with whom he met on the night between Monday and Tuesday in Santiago.
This has been stated by María José de Pazo, daughter of Francisco de Pazo, chief engineer of the fishing boat. Sánchez has shown the commitment to study these claims presented, “Although without a specific deadline.”
These requests to the Government go through sending to the area of the shipwreck a robot boat that can submerge to more than 3,000 meters deep, as well as F-100 frigates and other means.
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A “sudden” stop of the engine, origin of the wreck of the Villa de Pitanxo
This has been communicated by the shipping company, Pesquerías Nores, which has made public this Monday the explanation offered by the ship’s skipper, Juan Padín, one of the survivors
It is also appealed to contact the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) so that all vessels fishing or transiting are “activated”, set a sighting alarm. Likewise, they request that aircraft from the Canadian rescue service leave in reconnaissance mode.
In addition, they demand an urgent meeting this week of the director general of the Merchant Navy with the families of the disappeared. De Pazo points out that he “is responsible for the Maritime Rescuethe one that coordinates what is related to the shipwreck of Spain with Canada”. On this point, Sánchez has transferred that he “would notify” to be able to hold that meeting.
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The survivors of the Pitanxo shipwreck are “exhausted, but well”
The families of the twelve disappeared have asked that Sánchez receive them to listen to their demand that the Government do everything possible to resume the search for the missing shipwrecked, half of the crew on board
The families of the 12 missing sailors have agreed give a “vote of confidence” to the president of the Government, but they will act as lookouts to make sure that, as they ask, tracking is resumed.
María José de Pazo, who acts as spokesperson, has told the press that what they have decided is grant you “a time” in which they will be “watchful”as he pointed out after the night meeting of all of them with the chief executive at the Santiago airport, before the landing of the Airbus A400 with the three survivors and five of the nine recovered bodies.
“He did not give us a specific deadline” to resume these location tasks, added De Pazo, daughter of chief engineer Francisco de Pazo, the oldest member of the crew of that vessel that caught halibut.
The survivors “killed” after the landing
Juan Padín, patron of Villa de Pitanxo, who at the age of 16 had already suffered a shipwreck; his nephew Eduardo Rial and the Ghanaian sailor Samuel Kwesi, the only fishermen who survived the sinking of the ill-fated trawler in the Great Banks area of Newfoundland, they landed in Compostela “dejected”.
With warm clothes and a backpack on each one’s back, the three were greeted after midnight by Pedro Sánchez, in deep mourning. And, individually, have held talks with the leader socialist, very brief.
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The families of the victims of the Pitanxo ask Moncloa “not to give up the battle”
They demand that the “relevant” organizations finance these rescue tasks and that the means “that they deem convenient” be made available.
They, Juan, Edu and Samuel, have struggled successfully, because they have saved their lives against adversity; against a failure in the main engine and the onslaught of the sea, but his feat others have not been able to replicate it and they have lost 21 companions.
The survivors of Villa de Pitanxo will be able to rest at home tonight, after traveling from San Juan de Terranova in an Airbus A400 that arrived in Santiago at midnight and after days on board the rescue ship and in a hotel.