“Faced with fairground thugs and a cowardly prince, only brave justice is worth it.” It is the resounding end of the harsh letter that the parents of little Vera, who died in the Mislata inflatable in January 2022, have sent to the media. In the document, they include the deficiencies that the investigations have pointed out had the attraction of the fair and criticize the management of the mayor of Mislata, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, and that of his councilor for Fiestas, Antonio Arenas.
The parents have requested “insistently” that Court number 4 cite the mayor responsible for this area as investigated. “We deserve an explanation; Vera deserves it,” they argue in their letter.
They explain that there is “more than enough evidence” that the inflatable did not have the necessary anchors and that it was not attached to the side from which the girl flew off. They also denounce that the attraction was not installed in the place that the town hall map includes: “Too many irregularities not to point to fairgrounds and public officials,” they say.
The letter walks between an exposition of the harsh events that occurred at Christmas 2021, when the strong gusts of wind caused the inflatable to rise, and the demand for responsibilities from the mayor, whom they avoid mentioning and allude to as “the prince”.
To their intense and painful letter, the parents of the missing minor attached the latest expert report, commissioned by the family of Cayetana, the other minor who died in the terrible accident.
Dated June 20 of this same year, the report concludes that the attraction rose laterally because “it was not properly anchored. And even, the absence of any anchorage on the right side of it, and the tying points on the side left to the structure of the trampolines, almost favored a candle effect that perhaps aggravated the occurrence of the incident”.
It affirms that “the occurrence of this fatal accident is directly related to the negligent use of the installation and of the people who are responsible for such fact.”
