The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, shakes off responsibility for the management of DANA, the most catastrophic episode of the last century in the Valencian Community. Mazón has defended himself by discrediting state agencies such as Aemet and has insisted on pointing to the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation in his appearance this Friday, 17 days after the great floods, to explain his management of the pre-emergency, emergency and post-emergency .
He has announced that the PP will register an “inquiry commission to analyze with light and stenographers how many questions have been raised regarding the response to the worst tragedy in recent history.” The Valencian president has stated that “the protocols were not enough” and has insisted that DANA “exceeded all forecasts”, without apologizing for the management. However, he assures that “he is not going to evade any responsibility.”
Regarding the four blank hours that Mazón maintained on DANA day, from his lunch with a journalist at 3:00 p.m. until his arrival at Cecopi at 7:30 p.m., the popular leader has acknowledged that he kept his agenda “fully aware of the situation” because The competent Emergency Minister had traveled to the affected areas and warnings had been issued. He attended Cecopi when they warned him of the possible rupture of the Forata dam.
“The trip was not easy. “The bad weather produced high traffic density and lengthened the journey,” he said to justify his delay and a four-hour time ellipsis. The president has omitted that he was eating to maneuver for control of Valencian public television, as his team recognized, after several version changes.
The focus on the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation
“The measurement systems were not only overwhelmed by the water level but were swept away and carried away by the flood,” said the Valencian president, who assures that there was “a single sensor” in the entire Poyo ravine, the boulevard. that overflowed.
The leader has been focusing on the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation for weeks and claiming that the Generalitat was not informed of the seriousness of the situation. Mazón uses the excuse that the Riba-Roja rain gauge was swept away by the flood in the Poyo ravine (Chiva ravine). This meter went offline at 6:55 p.m., according to the Hydrographic Confederation. By then, Cecopi had been meeting for two hours analyzing the emergency and the state agency had warned on numerous occasions of the rains at the head of the Chiva ravine and the increase in flow, as demonstrated by the emails issued. The president was not yet in that body because he was eating. The Emergency Agency of the Generalitat Valenciana itself issued an alert at 12 noon due to the increase in the channel in that Poyo boulevard.
Discredit Aemet
The Valencian president has defended himself by discrediting state agencies. “An episode of torrential rains, which was what everything had been planned for days before, is not the same as the monstrous ravine caused by an atmospheric phenomenon that exceeded the Aemet’s worst forecasts. Torrential rains; ravine”, he explained. The president insists that “we cannot forget that the red alert was sent due to the forecast of torrential rains, as has happened on 36 other occasions in the last 10 years without leading to brutal floods like the one that occurred in the upper reaches of the ravine. of Poyo. Many of these alerts did not even cause significant flooding,” says the popular baron.
He insists that Aemet left the alert until 6 p.m. and that it provided erroneous information. The state agency later updated the notice.
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