The Generalitat lied about Mazón’s role on the afternoon of the crisis: he was in the restaurant until 6:00 p.m.

On the day of the tragedy, when hundreds of people were already trapped by the DANA floods, Carlos Mazón was eating at a well-known restaurant in the center of Valencia that specialized in chops. Yesterday, Thursday, sources from the Valencian Generalitat informed elDiario.es that on the afternoon of DANA, last October 29, President Carlos Mazón “was working at the Palau de la Generalitat and was promptly informed of what was happening at the Cecopi. between 5:00 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. However, as reported today by both El País and El Confidencial, Mazón was actually in the restaurant until after 6:00 p.m. At that time, large areas of Utiel and Requena were already flooded.

This Thursday, at the entrance to Cecopi (the L’Eliana Emergency Center), the president stated that he was having “a working lunch” and permanently connected with the organization. “I was personally in touch all the time with everything that was happening,” he said. That lunch was “working,” said Mazón with a serious face. It is a new version change.

elDiario.es had previously consulted with his team, who at no time denied the private nature of Mazón’s agape. The Presidency of the Generalitat later stressed that the head of the Consell was “working and informed punctually” of what was happening in the Cecopi.

“The president was in the Palau de la Generalitat working and informed punctually and it is when he was informed of the risk of breaking the Forata dam that he physically and immediately joined the Cecopi meeting,” noted his team, who when asked about previously for the private meal, he framed it in his personal life, like that of any other citizen.

The president of the Generalitat still does not indicate who he ate with or what issues were addressed at that meeting. The meal occurs when the counselor had already summoned the Emergency body. The sources consulted by elDiario.es affirm that he arrived at the meeting at 7:30 p.m. and “the topics and information of the meeting had to be explained to him,” which slowed down decision-making. There are five hours in which the president’s whereabouts are not exactly known. DANA has claimed 215 lives in Valencia. The mass mobile alert was not sent until 8:12 p.m.