The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, has requested the incorporation of the Armyas well as the available land, sea and air troops, to reinforce the logistics and aid distribution tasks to the municipalities affected by the DANA in the province of Valencia.
The Military Emergency Unit has already communicated that this Friday at 8 in the morning a first wave will join to work during the day.
«After a conversation with the President of the Government, to improve operational coordination within the control body that has been in place since Monday, together with the incorporation of the army, we have decided that he will join the CECOPI team of 112 at the highest level. from the Government Minister of the Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska permanently,” said Mazón in X.
For his part, the Minister of Territorial Policy, Angel Victor Torreshas specified that the Ministry of Defense will send 500 more troops from the Military Emergency Unit (UME) to add to the 1,200 that were already sent during the first days to the Valencian Community by DANA. In a press conference from Moncloa , the minister has guaranteed that the Government will guarantee all the necessary resources to meet the needs of the Valencian Community, whenever the Valencian Government so demands.
The @UMEgob He tells me that tomorrow at 8 in the morning a first wave will begin to work during the day.
— Carlos Mazón (@carlos_mazon_) October 31, 2024
In this context of devastation, the Valencia Prosecutor’s Office has announced that it is requesting preventive detention for all those detained – 39 this Wednesday, according to the National Police – for the robberies that are being committed in zone zero of the storm.
In this regard, the head of the Investigative Court number 3 of Torrent, acting as guard, has decreed this Thursday afternoon the entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail of four men arrested for allegedly looting shops in a shopping center in the town of Aldaia during the night of last Tuesday, when the area was being hit by Dana, which has caused dozens of fatalities in the province of Valencia.
The instructor has made this decision at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, after receiving statements from those arrested by videoconference, in telematic connection with the City of Justice of Valencia, where they had been transferred by the security forces due to the impossibility of taking them to the headquarters. Torrent court due to the effects of the floods.
The four people involved were arrested by the Civil Guard after being surprised in the surroundings of the shopping center with effects that they had supposedly just stolen from inside several businesses, such as sports equipment, mobile phones and a video game console, among others.
The judge indirectly attributes to those investigated, without prejudice to further qualification, an aggravated crime of robbery with force in an establishment open to the public for the commission of which an accident has been taken advantage of or the “existence of a general risk or danger for the community that has occurred.” weakened the defense of the offended party or facilitated the unpunished commission of the crime».
The judge considers that the detainees were able to take advantage of the impunity provided by the fact that the security forces were attending to the emergency situation generated by DANA to allegedly commit the robbery.
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