Protesters demand meeting with Spanish PM and funds for medical expenses of historic food poisoning scandal survivors.People who survived a mass food poisoning that took place in 1981 have occupied Madrid’s Del Prado art gallery, threatening to attempt suicide if their demands for aid and attention are not met.
A photo showed six people – one in a wheelchair – holding a banner in front of Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour), a painting by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez, inside the gallery on Tuesday. Others gathered outside.
“No more humiliation and abandonment,” said a statement posted to the Twitter account of an association for victims of the adulterated rapeseed oil that harmed thousands …
