The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, criticized the central government this Saturday following the account of events released by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) in the last few hours regarding the situation of the Forata dam on DANA day and the warnings that were given at the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (CECOPI).
Through a message published on the social network will not make any decision or warn to the population and has criticized the “inaction of the central government when the lives of 80,000 people were in danger”.
“The Government of Spain was represented at the CECOPI, which was convened on the afternoon of October 29, and had full capacity to take command at any time if it knew that from 5:30 p.m. there was a risk of the dam breaking,” he said. pointed out Mazón, who has lamented that “being able to act, they did absolutely nothing for three hours” with the excuse of being waiting for him.
In this sense, Mazón recalled that the president of the Generalitat is not part of the CECOPI and your presence is not necessary to make any executive decision.
Given this situation, Mazón continues, there are two “options”: “Either their argument (that of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition) is false,” “or the Government knew since 5:30 p.m. that the dam could break without doing anything at all to alert the population when they had the capacity to do so.” “.
Mazón’s response has come after sources from the Aemet have affirmed this Saturday that the CECOPI did not make decisions between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. that day and that sources from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) have pointed out that between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. hydrological alerts had already been activated due to the overflowing of the Poyo ravine, Magro river, Júcar and the Forata dam, since it was known that the situation was very serious.
Miteco sources have assured that The critical situation arose in Forata before 5:30 p.m. —almost three hours before the Es-Alert system was activated— and that the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation notified Emergencies at 6:55 p.m. that the dam was releasing 633 m3/s. However, the mass message from Es Alert to the mobile phones of the population in Valencia was not sent until 8:11 p.m.
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