New Report of the Valencia Prosecutor’s Office on the management of the DANA of October 29. After not appreciating any criminal responsibility in the lack of cleanliness and investment in the Poyo ravine, it moves into a second brief that the figure of the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabédoes not gather any kinds of crime, which anticipates that the socialist leader will not be investigated in the case instructed by the Catarrona judge, except for 180 degrees.
The Public Ministry, in the new letter dated March 21 and signed by the representative Cristóbal Melgarejo, to which he has had access ABCit emphasizes that the competence in Civil Protection and emergency management in the Valencian Community is the “exclusive” responsibility of the Generalitat, in accordance with the Statute of Autonomy and the Civil Protection and Emergency Management Law.
The complaint filed by Hazteira He argued that the Government delegate had the power to have requested the National Emergency Declaration and that, not doing so, contributed in some way to take preventive measures that would have prevented deaths and injuries.
However, the prosecutor He does not consider that there are criminal indications In Bernabé’s performance, since its mission does not include a functional domain of the risk, not declaring the national emergency situation, nor was in a “guarantor” position that justified a criminal imputation. Thus, he continues, that his role in the crisis “was limited to coordination between the state administration and the autonomic”, without it corresponding to “make direct decisions” on emergency management.
The Fiscal Ministry also points out that the Directorate of the Special Plan against the Risk of Flood was always under the command of the Generalitat, who was the one who decreed the emergency levels according to the evolution of the tragedy in which 227 people died and one remains missing.
Specifically, details the report that the holder of the Ministry, then Salome Pradasdeclared the emergency situation two, and therefore, “the management of the plan competed and consubstantially the function of determining the protection measures to the population that should be adopted.”
Plan director
“The representative of the Generalitat Valenciana in the CECOPI will act as director of the Plan as long as the national interest is not declared,” the prosecutor quotes a section of the Special Plan for the risk of floods In the Valencian Community, approved by Decree 81/2010, of May 7, of the Consell.
In addition, in reference to Law 13/2010, of November 23, of the Generalitat, of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, the Public Ministry highlights the functions of the Ministry of the subject, in this case in the hands of Pradas, among which it highlights “to exercise the Single command of the emergency by directing civil protection plans and developing, among others, the functions of declaring and determining the most convenient protection measures for people ».
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