Because Carlos Mazón He joined the emergency center meeting two hours late who watched the passage of the DANA through the province of Valencia? Why your Minister of Justice, Salomé PradasDid you go in and out of the Cecopi meeting trying to talk to him? “It is up to Mazón to give explanations about the agenda for that day,” said the PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, this Thursday.
He president of the Generalitat assured almost at the same time that he was “at a working lunch” and denied the rumors that suggested that he was at a birthday: “How can you say that he was at a birthday? No, I categorically deny it,” he said. . According to his surroundings, between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., Mazón was following the situation of the DANA from the Palau, but the normality with which Tuesday, October 29 passed for the president ylThe gaps in its agenda continue to be the great black hole of the PP.
This is the reconstruction of what, according to what is known so far, Mazón did that day.
9:00 am: plenary session of the Consell. At nine in the morning Mazón presided over the Plenary Session of the Consell with absolute normality. At 07:36 in the morning the AEMET had already launched the first red notice in the northern interior of Valencia.
As published by the SER ChainAt 9:30 a.m. the Government delegate in the Valencian Country, Pilar Bernabé, met with mayors of the risk area to inform them of the alert.
10:45 am: presides over an event at the Palau. After the plenary session, Mazón presided over the ceremony of delivery to the Generalitat of the certification of the tourism sustainability strategy by Aenor (Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification).
The AEMET continues to warn of the situation.
Noon: Presentation of digital health strategy. After there, Mazón went to the headquarters of the General Directorate of Public Health and presented, together with the Minister of Health, the Digital Health Strategy of the Valencian Community, as reflected on the website of his communication office.
At that moment the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation was already issuing the first warning that the three alarm thresholds were exceeded on Rambla del Poyo and that the trend was “ascending.” According to the information of the Chain Beingupon receiving that communication at 12:07 like the rest of the institutions, The Government delegate calls the Minister of Justice for the first timeSalomé Pradas, head of the emergency area.
He tells him that the State resources are there for whatever he needs, that he can ask for anything, that he has already spoken with the UME and that they are prepared, but the counselor does not request anything and tells him that he is going to meet immediately with your emergency team in the center of l’Eliana.
At 12:48 p.m. Bernabé, the Government delegate, calls the counselor again to alert her of the situation and offer resources, but she still does not consider it necessary.
1:00 p.m.: Mazón appears and says that the storm “is moving”. Ten minutes later, the president of the Generalitat is already appearing before the media at the Palau to report on the Consell meeting. “According to the forecast, the storm is moving towards the Serranía de Cuenca, so it is expected that around 6:00 p.m. it will decrease in intensity throughout the rest of the Valencian Community,” says Mazón. He posted the video with these statements on his social networks, accompanied by a message asking for extreme precautions.
Hours later, when the catastrophe caused by DANA was already evident, deleted the tweet. This Monday he explained in the Cope Chain He did it so as not to confuse the population.
1:45 p.m.: meeting with unions and employers. After his appearance, Mazón held a meeting with UGT, Workers’ Commissions and the president of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community to address the next budgets of the Generalitat. From there He goes to a “working lunch” about which nothing is known.
Meanwhile, at 2:00 p.m.the Government delegate made the third call to the Mazón councilor to insist on offering her means to deal with the meteorological situation. The conversation ends like the previous ones.
2:30 p.m.: The councilor finds out that there is a missing person and calls the Cecopi. According to what he said The Countrythe Minister of the Interior was informed at 2:30 p.m. of the disappearance of a truck driver in L’Alcudia and it was then that she decided to convene the Cecopi, which would not meet until two and a half hours later.
Lunch-6:45 p.m.: “Private lunch” or “working lunch.” Meanwhile, the president of the Generalitat is at a “working” lunch about which nothing is known. Mazón has not said who he ate with and it is not listed in his official agenda or on the transparency portal. It doesn’t appear until five hours later.
5:00 p.m.: Cecopi is convened. At five in the afternoon, the emergency committee, which includes the Generalitat, met, with the Minister of the Interior as representative, the UME, the firefighters, the AMET, the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation and the security forces and bodies of the State.
As published The Confidentialin the first moments of the meeting the technicians already addressed the danger of overflow, but no executive decision was made. Sources present indicate the inability of Minister Prados to make decisions in the absence of Mazón.
7:00 p.m.: Mazón joins. He president of the Generalitat joins at 7:00 p.m., after Prados managed to speak with him at 6:43 p.m. after several attempts, according to information from elDiario.es. Mazón explained that it was at that moment when they told him “be careful, everything has changed” and that the forecast has increased in the Poyo ravine and the Forata dam could break.
8:12 p.m.: Notices are sent to phones. However, it is not until an hour and a half later that the system messages
ES-Alert civil protection reaches mobile phones. By then there were already devastated points without coverage. The Minister of the Interior assured this Thursday that she knew at that very moment that the Generalitat had this mass alert system.
In statements to Á PuntPradas explains that at eight in the afternoon the Secretary of State for Ecological Transition, Hugo Morán, calls her to convey the risk of the Forata dam breaking (which ultimately did not happen) and that “that is when A technician informs us that there is a mechanism called ES-Alert“.
The message arrived late and caught hundreds of Valencians living a normal life. DANA has caused 220 deadthe official figure at the time of writing, and 89 missing.
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