The extreme right has once again recovered one of its most classic hoaxes: the demolition of dams. Several ultra accounts and agitators, such as Bertrand Ndongo, have dedicated themselves to spreading the word that “some smartasses” blew up Franco’s dam plan “and today citizens suffer the consequences.”
The leader of Vox himself, Santiago Abascal, said in a tweet addressed to Ursula Von der Leyen that he is “guilty” of the tragedy with his “criminal law of blowing up dams.” In that message he also accused her of being “an enemy of the Spanish” and of practicing “the worst act of scavengers.” In his message he does not mention Franco, but many other agitators in the Vox orbit do: “The best ruler that Spain has had and will ever have. If Valencia is not a lagoon today, it is because of this plan.”
“After the terrible floods of October 1957 in Valencia, Franco immediately launched a plan for reservoirs and dams to prevent catastrophes like the one we are experiencing today in Valencia. Some clever people came to you later and started dynamiting those works and today the citizens suffer the consequences of those useless fanatical politicians,” Ndongo says directly.
There is no relationship between floods and reservoirs, as experts have recalled these days. There have only been three demolitions in Valencia in the last two decades and they are weirs, that is, barriers of a few meters to divert channels (and which, being disused, cause safety risks). Interviewed by RTVECésar Rodríguez, general secretary of the AEMS Ríos con vida association, has explained that it is an “absurd hoax without foundation.”
“The episode occurred on the edge of La Planada in Valencia, it did not come along the coast like on other occasions, and there were very violent rains with figures of 500 or 600 liters per square meter in a few hours (…) What “What causes it is the overflowing of rivers that are normally ravines and that carry very little or no amount of water in their usual situation and suddenly grow enormously,” he argues.
According to reports El País From sources from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the weirs demolished in Valencia are the Molí de Malanya weir, in Bellús (Valencia), demolished in 2022; the Corindón weir in 2017 (in the Turia riverbed), with a height of 1.50 meters; and four weirs on the L’Algoder boulevard, knocked down in 2006. None of them affect the flood area and they were removed because they also pose a risk “during floods or floods because their virulence increases,” according to Transition’s explanation. Ecological to El País.
The conspiracy about the AEMET
From the right the AEMET has also been targeted (and, again, it is not new). This same Thursday, the PP questioned the information it receives from public organizations: “I assure you that a regional president manages based on the information he receives, and the information received depends on organizations with exclusive jurisdiction of the central government, see the AEMET or the Hydrographic Confederation (…) No one can make decisions based on information that may be exact, inexact, or subject to improvement. Decisions are made based on the information provided to you at all times,” he insisted.
According to the chronology of what happened on Tuesday, the AEMET placed the entire coast of Valencia and the northern interior of the province on red alert level at 09:48 in the morning, and the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat Valenciana issued a red level alert for this entire area, just 12 minutes later. At one in the afternoon, Carlos Mazón himself said that the intensity of DANA was going to decrease after 6:00 p.m. Information that he himself published on his official Twitter account and that he later deleted due to the events.
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