• Shipwreck in Newfoundland Galicia asks Canada to continue looking for the crew of the Villa de Pitanxo "at least 24 more hours"

  • Testimony Ricardo, the castaway duplicate of the 'Villa de Pitanxo' who said before boarding: "Let's see if I'm lucky this time"

Canada

's decision

to suspend the search for the crew of

Villa de Pitanxo

has outraged the families of the disappeared, who this Thursday held a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, in

Marín (Pontevedra)

and arrived to the meeting with a very critical stance towards the position of the state government.

As the president of the

Xunta de Galicia

, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, did in the morning, this afternoon they have asked that the tasks be resumed in the waters of

Newfoundland

to try to locate the 12 bodies that are still missing and have shown their anger with the Government for not demanding that the Canadian authorities continue with the tasks.

Only three sailors were found alive and nine bodies, but the rest of the crew does not appear.

"Do not shut up and applaud that a few people leave in less than 48 hours with the excuse that they are not alive," implored

María José de Pazo

, daughter of

Francisco de Pazo

, crew member of the boat, before meeting with the minister.

She spoke on behalf of more families, who are complaining about the "lack of information we're getting" in general and this decision in particular.

María José, former councilor for the PP in Marín, has criticized that "we do not notice any cooperation, help or protection" and has asked "that all the means available in Spain be used" to continue with the search, because "if Canada does not want provide media, there are Spanish people and there are people there and let the media be provided".

At the gates of the

Port Authority of Marín and Ría de Pontevedra

, De Pazo insisted that the families "we already know, unfortunately, that they are not alive, but they are 12 people who do not deserve to be abandoned."

He also stated that his relatives and relatives "we are not going to abandon them because they do not deserve it."

María José de Pazo added that "we are going through great pain due to the losses and this makes it even worse."

The daughter of the ship's chief engineer has insisted that Spain "has ships and has planes" and wonders "what are they doing all this time" and why they don't send those means to the site of the wreck "for work like this and bring home to our people.

The families, in addition, are grateful for the work of the fishing boats that from the first moment collaborated to locate the crew members, because "they did show empathy with the pain of the families and with their companions who are underwater" .

She is sure that "thanks to them three people were saved", the three crew members who were rescued alive in a life raft.

"They are at the bottom of the sea"

In similar terms, Cristopher González

manifested himself

, who was accompanied by his brother Kevin.

His father,

Fernando

, is on the crew and is angry at the same lack of information that María José referred to.

"If we don't get in touch, I don't know that my father is at the bottom of the sea, because he is at the bottom of the sea," he criticized.

Very indignant, like a good part of the families who attended the meeting with the minister at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Marín and Ría de Pontevedra, he also criticized that "if we do not get in touch, we do not know that the search is suspended" .

"We have no information about anything, neither politics nor the shipowner or anyone," insisted Cristopher, who wanted to clarify that "I am not blaming anyone because the data issue and everything is surely complicated, but we are blind, we do not know anything, absolutely nothing".

Contact with the third survivor

The pastor of the evangelical church of Marín, Julio Torres

, also approached the meeting

, speaking as close to the third survivor of the Villa de Pitanxo shipwreck, the Ghanaian

Samuel Kwesi

, who revealed that he had been able to speak with him and told him to he finds it "confused and excited" but "fine".

As he explained, he was able to speak with him this Thursday morning and noticed that he was "excited and grateful."

He also knows that the 30-year-old boy with five children in Ghana was also able to talk to his wife, who lives in his country.

He told her that he was being "well treated."

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