The Court of Instruction number 3 of Catarroja (Valencia) will investigate the complaint of the main association of victims of the flood that indicates five senior positions of the Valencian Executive of Carlos Mazón, of the PP, and the highest authority of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation ( CHJ), which depends on the Ministry for Ecological Transition, Miguel Polo.
The association of victims Horta Sud (380 members), the first organization of victims to be constituted after the tragedy that on October 29 left 227 dead, signed by a hundred families against those responsible for the catastrophe. The complaint fell to the Court of Instruction number 9 of Valencia, which was inhibited in favor of the Catarroja magistrate, as confirmed by the president of this association ,.
The complainants have asked to cite to a witness to Mazón, that at 13.00 hours on the flood day he said that the storm moved to the Serranía de Cuenca. And put in the peephole of their complaint to whom he was an interior and justice counselor of the Generalitat and the head of emergency, – which was dismissed by Mazón four weeks after the Dana; to the regional secretary of Security and Emergencies that abandoned the position after the tragedy, Emilio Argüeso; to the General Director of Emergency, Alberto San Martín; to the deputy director of the Valencian Agency for Emergency Security and Response (AVSRE), Jorge Suárez; The emergency head, Immaculate Piles.
If these senior charges committed reckless homicide crimes (punishable by a maximum of four years in prison), injuries (up to three years in prison), damage and relief omission.
The complaint laments the delay (20.11 hours on October 29) in which the massive SMS of Es-Alert arrived at mobile, The Generalitat system. The letter entered the phones when the Poyo ravine, the Magro River and 112 was already collapsed. “At 3:00 p.m. [del 29 de octubre, día de la dana]the complaints had sufficient data to activate this alert, ”says the complaint.
The president of the Association of Victims presented by the complaint ensures that he is “very satisfied” of the journey of the action and trusts that political responsibilities will be purified.
After the Dana, dozens of complaints have been filed by relatives of deceased in different municipalities of the 78 municipalities whipped by the catastrophe. The Court number three of Catarroja centralizes all these causes with the help of five prosecutors. You are missing last other complaint with more than 150 victims, mostly relatives of dead, according to sources close to this entity.
