New contradictions in Carlos Mazón’s version of his management of DANA. This Sunday, the president of the Valencian Generalitat has asked to stop “the hoaxes and lies” about his actions on the afternoon of October 29, in which he insisted that he was not incommunicado and that he even spoke with the mayor of Cullera, Jordi Elderly. And he has stated that the Government “is falling into one contradiction after another” through “its entities.” But the truth is that, as elDiario.es learned ten days ago, that call to Jordi Mayor occurred around 6:30 p.m. and in it Mazón did not report the risk of the Forata dam breaking or raise any concern about the emergency. .
Mazón, who made these statements before attending the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (CECOPI) at the L’Eliana Emergency Coordination Center, wondered why if the Government had information through Aemet that the Forata dam could break “he did not take command” of the emergencies.
Carlos Mazón and Jordi Mayor spoke last October 29 at 6:30 p.m. The conversation, known to elDiario.es for ten days, did not address the seriousness of the situation and did not address the risk of the Forata dam overflowing, which would have directly affected the municipality of Cullera and all of the the Ribera region.
According to what Jordi Mayor told this newspaper, during the call, the president of the Generalitat cordially asked him about his state of health and told him that he was in a meeting in which his name had come up, so he had taken advantage of to call him. He also asked him if it was raining in Cullera. “It was not an appropriate conversation for the level of emergency we were experiencing,” Mayor explained.
The mayor of Cullera also wanted to clarify it in a thread on his Twitter account this Sunday. “Mazón continues lying in the same way, mixing truths and lies. The truth is, he did call me, I made it public that same day in my city’s plenary session. The lie, I have never said that he was incommunicado (we already know that he was communicating with someone),” he explained. “I have said and I will always say that no protocol says that on red alert you can go away for five hours to eat at a restaurant. The call was not to inform me of anything that had to do with the emergency,” he continues. “I thought he was calling me from CECOPI, but today we know that it was a call more typical of someone who has just left a 5-hour meal. I’ll leave it there,” Mayor ditches on the social network.
This newspaper had not revealed the call as it was not authorized by Mayor “out of institutional loyalty.” It was Mazón himself who revealed the call this Sunday.
It is more than striking that Mazón did not tell Mayor anything about the Forata dam, when in Cecopi it was the cause of greatest alarm since the dam was about to overflow. If the president had been informed, it should have been the reason for the call. In the conversation, he suggested that the president was not aware of the situation. “I was wearing wellies and a raincoat and with two inches of water in the streets,” explained the mayor to whom Mazón himself would have told: “Keep my cell phone for whatever you need.”
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