This is the end. After what has become known about the food he had on DANA day, Carlos Mazón cannot continue managing Spain’s worst tragedy in its recent history. The president of the Valencian Generalitat had already demonstrated his administrative inability to coordinate the response to the catastrophe, which has so far left 215 dead and devastation of apocalyptic dimensions. Now his moral inability has become clear. Thanks to the work of journalists whom he does not have under his wing, we have learned that the mysterious meal that kept him busy until 5:30-6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29 – when the cataclysm had already been unleashed in several locations Valencians – was with a journalist, Maribel Vilaplana, to whom he offered, between meats and wines, the direction of the public television station À Punt.
The flood advanced. From the Aemet, the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation, 112 and different town councils alerted the Generalitat that the situation was getting out of hand. But the president was in a restaurant making arrangements for a position that according to legal regulations must be awarded by merit-based competition. Apparently, the presenter declined the offer. After the extensive meeting, Mazón apparently stopped by his office and only around 7:30 p.m. did he join the emergency meeting of the emergency coordination committee that had begun two and a half hours earlier. According to some sources, he had to be updated on what had been discussed so far. And what was happening was terrifying. An hour earlier, the Poyo ravine had overflowed, flooding the municipalities of Torrent, Picanya, Paiporta, Sedaví, Benetússer, Massanassa and Catarroja, towns where the highest number of victims has occurred. The waters and mud advanced with fury. The death toll multiplied. At 8:12 p.m., when people were already up to their necks in water, the Generalitat sent the massive alert by SMS to the population of the province of Valencia asking them not to leave home and avoid traveling.
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