The Minister of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, on whom the Emergency Department of the Generalitat depends, learned at 8 p.m. on the same day from DANA that the Generalitat had a massive alert system to communicate notices to everyone. citizens and in which they asked to avoid all types of displacement.
He acknowledged this in an interview in À Punt, in which he explained that at 8 p.m. he received a call from the Secretary of State for Ecological Transition, Hugo Morán, from Colombia, to warn that he could not ensure that the dam would not break. of Forata on the Magre River. “That’s when a technician informs us that there is a mechanism called ES-Alert,” he says.
The massive alert was sent 12 minutes later, at 8:12 p.m., when the floods were already flooding various towns with several meters of water. The Ministry of the Interior and Justice explains that, after this telephone conversation “and after deliberation and agreement within the Cecopi, (with telematic presence of the Government Delegation, the CHJ, the Civil Guard and the National Police and in-person assistance from the Generalitat, Provincial Council of Valencia and the UME), it was decided to send the massive message to the population, which arrives at 8:11 p.m.
Pradas states in this interview that, when they inform him of the ES-Alert system, they point out that “it is not regulated for now, that it is not in our regional plans, that it is still a draft that is in the National Civil Protection Committee to be approved.” ”. But the previous government of the Generalitat of Ximo Puig presented this massive alert system in 2022, and in May 2023, The same Botanic government has already carried out a general rehearsal in the Vega Baja region. What’s more, the Ministry of Justice and Interior itself, already with the government of Carlos Mazón, reported in August 2023, when the department was directed by Elisa Núñez (Vox), that that same year the system was already active.
After this alarm message, on October 30, another massive message was sent asking the population to avoid traveling, and on the 31st there was another SMS for the province of Castellón and another for València asking people to stay at home and take shelter in high places, and not circulate on the roads. The same system was used by the Government of Catalonia on November 4 due to the episode of torrential rains.
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