Miguel Polo admitted at a meeting that the state agency stopped offering data from the ravine for two and a half hours on October 29
The president of the Júcar Hythe October 29, Dana catastrophic day that devastated the province of Valencia. A blackout that the Valencian Generalitat has been denouncing since then in front of the refusal of the central government.
This is evidenced by an audio to which ABC has had access, recorded during that meeting against twenty people almost two months after the tragedy. In it you can listen to Polo answer the question of the regional secretary of the Environment of the Generalitat, Raúl Mérida, about the lack of records between 16:13 and 6:43 p.m. of that fateful day. “What was not transmitted at that time was information on the Poyo Rambla,” acknowledges the head of the CHJ. «Confederation is not an emergency agency. We simply transmit information in real time, ”he says.
Precisely, “at that time,” the ravine overflowed and a tragedy was consumed with 224 dead, three missing and multimillion -dollar material damages. At 4:13 pm, the Generalitat Emergency Center received an email about the decline in the cauda at 28.7 cubic meters per second after a morning of heavy rains. “The flood is being very fast,” warned the following communication, at 6:43 p.m. Exactly, 1,686 cubic meters per second had been reached.
All eyes at the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), in which both the Generalitat and the Government participated, were then put in the possible breakage of the Forata dam and in the fact of sending or not a massive alert Civil Protection to the population, which was very late for many. To that encounter they attended – in telematic form – several positions of the CHJ, including Miguel Polo. As they have reiterated on several occasions since the executive of Carlos Mazón, no one warned of what was happening in the Rambla del Poyo. From that meeting there are no recordings, at least, officers.
In these three months since the tragedy, Polo has refused to participate in person in the Dana Investigation Commission in the Valencia City Council – it will send the questions asked in writing – and has only broken his silence on one occasion.
«We are clear that we are not responsible. I think everyone knows what was not done. There is nothing more to say right now, ”he said, pointing out the Generalitat, when approached by the media on January 29 during the visit to works in Torrent. «We are in reconstruction. Then there will be time to talk about everything else, ”he said. Although he has held closed door meetings with representatives from different institutions, Miguel Polo has not given explanations so far.
Asked whether he will appear, if he is summoned by parliamentary groups as expected, in the commission that has also been constituted in the Valencian Courts, Polo indicated that he will do what “the State Advocacy says”, as has happened on other similar occasions , in which a report has been requested to this body.
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