What exactly happened on October 29 and how the arrival of the DANA that hit Valencia was managed – which has already left almost 220 dead in the region – continues to focus the crossed political accusations. This Sunday, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, He has asked that the “hoaxes and lies” that he claims are being spread against him stop. about his actions that day, also stating that the Government “is falling into one contradiction after another” these days through explanations given by entities such as the UME or the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
This was expressed upon his arrival at a new meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), where the president hhas responded to the accusations of the Aemet this Saturday in which the organization reported that the risk of the Forata dam breaking began to be raised at 5:30 p.m. at the Cecopi meeting on the day of the catastrophe, three hours before the alert was launched. After that, Mazón asked himself why if the Government had that information at that time? “did not take command” to control the emergency: “Why didn’t he take command? Why didn’t he force that ES-Alert to be sent?”
In his words, the statement that around 5 p.m. there was talk about the worrying situation that existed at that point and in the Poyo ravine is “materially impossible” because The possibility of this dam bursting did not arrive “until two hours later”: “Do you mean to tell me that at 5:30 p.m. the Government already knew that 80,000 lives of Valencians could be in danger and does not take command because supposedly here in the CECOPI, in a body where the Government itself is a member, they are foundering or are not knowing how to make decisions?” he insisted.
Faced with this scenario, Mazón has assured that it is the Government of Pedro Sánchez itself that has to respond to what happened and has accused the central Executive of fall “into one contradiction after another across its entities.” “It’s enough to deceive people. What has happened is very serious to be changing the story with the UME yes or with the UME no,” said Mazón in reference to the statements of the head of the Military Emergency Unit this Saturday in which it was claimed that their troops even began to deploy “hours before receiving special orders.”
“Why now does it turn out that we see another contradiction on the part of the UME, which is capable of saying that without the authorization of the Generalitat couldn’t activate, couldn’t do anythingand at the same time, a few days later, he says that before the authorization of the Generalitat it was already operating, was it already working? What are we left with?” Mazón has indicated.
The president of the Generalitat has also criticized the accusation that he was held incommunicado for five hours on the day of the tragedy, an aspect that he has indicated is a “lie” and that has become, as he considered, in “one of the biggest hoaxes of this time.” “I was not incommunicado at any time. The Cecopi was established at 5 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m. I was already receiving and answering calls from the councilor, the president of the Provincial Council… It is exhausting to constantly deny lies and hoaxes,” has expressed, adding that the only communication problems he described occurred upon arriving at the meeting because the telephone lines had gone down.
The Generalitat, also, with the help of the Minister of Agriculture, has criticized this Sunday that the “prohibitionism” of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation, which is dependent on the Ministry for the Ecological Transition, prevent city councils from cleaning riverbeds and ravinessomething they point out would minimize the risk of flooding. “These situations endanger both people and infrastructure,” commented the counselor.
Planas defends the “maximum coordination” of the Government
The Government’s response to Mazón and the Generalitat has come from Luis Planas, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who after a new meeting of the crisis committee for DANA has assured that the central Executive has attempted to “maximum coordination” as well as “maximum efficiency”to respond from the beginning to all the effects caused by October 29.
Likewise, Planas wanted to highlight that this response has been developed “in a transparent manner” so that all citizens and especially those affected “they could have knowledge of the actions that were carried out” and has confirmed that the Government will report on all the management that has been done with this DANA in the appearance that Pedro Sánchez will take place, which is expected to take place on November 27. The head of Agriculture also announced this Sunday the creation of 44 new offices to care for those affected in Valencia, which are added to the 16 already existing.
The mayor of Cullera denies that Mazón alerted him
On the other hand, the reproaches between the mayor of Cullera, Jordi Mayor, and Mazón. The first has denied this Sunday that the president alert him of the weather situation and the danger of the DANA during the afternoon of the 29th. Mazón had thus assured for his part that had a conversation with the local councilor Valencia at 6:28 p.m. where he asked him how the situation was, he told him that it was raining and that they did not expect any big problems.
However, the mayor of Cullera has acknowledged that this call occurred, but has stressed that Mazón never spoke about DANAadding that to this day he still does not know why he contacted him: “He did not tell me anything about the emergency, he did not tell me that the Forata dam was at risk of breaking nor did he tell me anything at all.”
As Mayor has detailed, in that call he assured Mazón that it had not rained at all in Cullera, and it was also he himself who told him that despite this They were aware of the risk of overflow river. “Well, well, yes, well. Well, nothing, you save my number, this is my personal number, You record it, and whatever you need, you call me.” He assures that Mazón responded to him. “End of the conversation. That is the conversation,” the mayor stressed.
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