“I have a hard time processing what happened that afternoon.” [de la dana] In relation to President Mazón, I think he should have been in Cecopi,” insists the former Emergency Minister of the Generalitat Valenciana, Salomé Pradas, in the interview given to the program Savedwhich is broadcast this Sunday by La Sexta. Pradas alludes to that afternoon and was unable to communicate with him.
“Not having your boss at that time, how did you value him at that moment, how do you value him a year later?” asks Gonzo, the interviewer. “In hindsight I have reflected and honestly it is still difficult for me to process what happened that afternoon in relation to the president of the Generalitat and I do empathize a lot with the victims there, not because we needed Mr. Mazón there, but because of the way in which it has been told and how it was told. “He has never told me in detail what he did that afternoon.”
Furthermore, the former Valencian councilor assures in the interview that she received the order not to disturb Carlos Mazón on the afternoon of the day. The person who conveyed these instructions to him was José Manuel Cuenca, Mazón’s chief of staff. Pradas is accused in the dana case being instructed by Catarroja judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, and Cuenca went this Wednesday to testify as a witness about all the decisions that were made during the floods that October 29 and in which at least 229 people died in the province of Valencia. When the massive alert was sent to mobile phones, at 8:11 p.m., at least 155 people had already died, according to an investigation by EL PAÍS. For another 37, their situation was insurmountable because they were trapped in their homes, cars or on the street.
He became desperate trying to talk to Mazón at the most critical moments. Now she knows that he “had his cell phone in his backpack.”
Sunday (9:35 p.m.), Salomé Pradas breaks her silence.
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Pradas claims that he decided to skip the order and contacted Mazón several times: “How could I not have to know the president of the Generalitat what was happening in a region of our territory? I, out of responsibility, skipped the ‘don’t call him’ or ‘tell me’ a bit. I am like that, sometimes I am a bit non-conformist with what they propose to me and I directly call the president”.
