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Tomorrow, Saturday, March 19, there will be parents who cannot hug their children and offspring who will not even be able to phone their parents.

and

joined the sad payroll on February 15.

His father,

, was the oiler of the fishing boat

, which was shipwrecked in the waters of

, leaving 21 dead and three survivors.

This Friday, Kevin remembered it with tears in his eyes, overwhelmed by emotion, after having participated in the joint funeral for the 21 victims of the tragedy in the Pontevedra town of

, headquarters of the ship's owner.

The King and Queen of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia, sheltered the families of the 21 deceased and disappeared in a sober and massive religious act in the

of Marín and the "gesture" and "the way in which they transmitted it" caused great consolation to the relatives, who were grateful for their "empathy" with their "immense pain", for which they have not found calm for more than a month.

After an emotional homily by the Archbishop of Santiago,

,

, daughter of one of the deceased and spokesperson for the families, spoke inside the temple to thank him and remind him that this Father's Day "will be hard for all the orphans.

That inconsolable sorrow was one of the reasons for organizing the funeral on this date, to seek a little calm for those who "have no one to call."

The gratitude to the King and Queen and the authorities who supported them, among them the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, and the Galician President, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, extend it to

, one of the three survivors of the shipwreck together with the patron,

, and his nephew,

;

and the only one who attended the funeral.

The young man, of Ghanaian origin, was also present at a previous private meeting with Felipe VI and Letizia and, upon arrival at the temple, received applause from a group of citizens who were waiting outside to follow the religious act through a screen giant installed by the

.

Sailor Kweni has become a great support for the families in recent weeks.

After the shipwreck, the shipping company indicated that everything was due to an engine failure that left the ship adrift while the net was turning and the skipper maintains the same version.

However, Samuel spoke before the Civil Guard and the Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation Commission (CIAIM) and provided a version that speaks of possible negligence by the captain and contradicts the official view.

These contradictions led the National High Court to open proceedings to determine if there is criminal responsibility in the shipwreck and Samuel became the only hope for the families to find out the truth.

This Friday, seeing him next to him, and that his boss and his nephew were missing, they wanted to thank him for his "bravery".

It is his "bulwark of truth and strength" and they thank him because he knows that it is "a very hard day" for him, since not only was he also a victim of what happened, but the deceased "were part of his family."

Kwesi made "a great effort", even going to an act of a different believe - he is an evangelist and the ceremony was Catholic - which also aroused great applause inside the temple.

During the religious act, there were moments full of solemnity and others overwhelming, such as the moment in which the names of the deceased were read one by one or a homily that served to remind us that "the sea means danger, absence and uncertainty" and becomes sometimes in a "black hole that ends projects, dreams and lives".

Of the 21 deceased, nine were recovered bodies and 12 are still missing.

Those 12 were addressed by the protest side, with a banner placed by the families at the entrance to the church with the message "We want you at home" in allusion to their repeated demand that the Government pressure Canada and provide its own means to resume the search tasks in the sinking area to rescue the 12 bodies that are still in the sea or, as they suspect, some even inside the sunken ship.

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