Social networks are burning against Óscar Puente after the Toledo accident over a video in which he joked about Renfe breakdowns

The Urda (Toledo) railway accident has reignited on social media the controversy over a video starring just a week ago by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, during an appearance on the program Cara al Show, hosted by Marc Giró on laSexta.

In the recording, conceived as a humorous piece to promote the interview, the minister takes part in a scene that recreates a rail breakdown and jokes about Renfe incidents, images that have been widely circulated again after the collision between an AVE and an Iryo this morning in Urda, with multiple fatalities.

The video had already prompted criticism when it was published, especially among the relatives and survivors of the Adamuz (Córdoba) accident, in which 46 people died last January.

A broken elevator, a joke about Renfe and a dance

The sequence begins with Puente entering an elevator in which Marc Giró and several characters from the program are found, including a large one-eyed cat. When the minister indicates that he wants to go up "to the sixth", the elevator suffers a sudden jolt and stops, in a scene that recalls the braking of trains when they break down.

Next, a voice announces over the public address system that the elevator will remain stopped longer than usual. Puente reacts by taking out his mobile phone and comments, in reference to the problems of the railway operator, "As if we didn't already have enough with Renfe".

The breakdown is resolved shortly afterward and the scene continues with another visual joke, when a large fork appears, a play on words with the expression "large forks". The video ends with Puente, Giró and the rest of the characters dancing inside the elevator, a sequence that is part of the program's humorous tone.

Óscar Puente himself shared the video on his X account with the message "If I survive this...", a phrase that is undoubtedly controversial after the Adamuz rail accident and that is once again at the center of criticism today.

The victims of Adamuz had already criticized the video

The controversy began before the Toledo accident. The Association of Victims of the Adamuz Derailment (AVDA) publicly expressed its rejection of the minister's participation in the scene, considering it inappropriate for the Transport Minister to joke about rail incidents after a tragedy with 46 dead.

Its president, Mario Samper, reproached Puente for his lack of sensitivity toward the affected families and the survivors who still carry the aftereffects of the accident. The association questioned both the content of the recording and the minister's decision to take part in it, and called for political accountability.

The criticism also came from the opposition, with reproaches for using railway breakdowns as a humorous argument after the Adamuz tragedy.