A video hidden by the Generalitat Valenciana to the Judge of Catarroja (Valencia) that investigates La Dana, Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, confirms that the ex -counselo charged in the case, Salomé Pradas, knew that the ravine of the poyo and the lean river of hydrological alert had to be monitored at 12.32 hours on October 29, the day of the flood that left 229 dead. destruction in the province of Valencia, according to the recording to which the country has had access.
The images have been incorporated into the cause after the instructor recently claimed the Executive of Carlos Mazón, of the PP, to contribute this material after discovering that the Consell had hidden the video for 11 months. And they show that the Generalitat assumed the surveillance of the Magro River and the Poyo, whose overflow caused a great wave that buried Valencian municipalities such as Catarroja or Paiporta.
In the footage, captured by a producer hired by the Generalitat, the hard emergency nucleus is seen landing at the Emergency Coordination Center of L’Aliana (Valencia). The images show Pradas; Who was his number two during the flood, the also accused Emilio Argüeso; and the emergency deputy director, Jorge Suárez. The former counselor writes in a document entitled “Report number two. Meteo Dana Episode: 12:15” Two arrows with the “Magro River” and “Rambla del Chicken (sic)” annotations.
The former director also points out in the document “Firefighters.” The mobilization of these troops was one of the most flagrant failures of the Aciaga Day. The agents stopped monitoring the Poyo ravine at 3:00 p.m. His then boss, José Miguel Basset, justified that they left the place “because there was a desire to eat.”
The new video starts with meadows saying “if you have to activate, it is activated.” The ex -president enters the device in the center with Suarez and argüeso. Inside the space, emergency screens show the evolution of the storm.
Edited video
The video is edited and the popular accusation that it exercises in the cause of the Cultural Dana Acció del País Valencià (ACPV) will ask Judge Ruiz Tobarra to urge the Generalitat Emergency Department to deliver the without modifying material. “They have manipulated it,” says the lawyer Manuel Mata, who represents this association.
Sources close to the former counselor Pradas remove relevance to the new recording. And they emphasize that the images show that “the priority was, from the morning, that the information received was duly communicated to the affected municipalities as the plan has.”
The images notified to the parties are added to the video known last Friday that showed that the general emergency deputy director of the Generalitat, Jorge Suárez, put on the table the possibility of sending a message to mobile phones to warn of the risk in the Valencian municipalities of Utiel and Requena over 5 pm, after starting the Cecopi, the organ of the Generalitat that coordinated the tragedy. Despite this possibility, the final notification did not refer until 8.11, when the dead, deceased and people trapped in low floors and garages of municipalities such as Catarroja.
The new videos contributed to the investigation also dismantle the thesis of the informative blackout, which have aerated the Generalitat, the PP and the two former Mazón positions charged in the case. The theory argues that if the Executive of the Popular Baron did not act on time it was because organizations such as the Spanish Meteorology Agency (Aemet) or the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ), which depend on the Ministry for Ecological Transition, did not provide precise information in advance to prevent one of the greatest tragedies that Spain have ravaged.
