The information that the Generalitat and the Government are delivering to the head of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Catarroja is showing black on white the performance in the response to the Dana that hit more than 80 Valencian municipalities on October 29. Among other information, the documentation contributed to the magistrate revealed that the four days after the floods where 224 people have died and disappeared three, already given by deceased, the Generalitat emergency team rejected the offer of external reinforcements on 26 occasions. This document gave in the flotation line of the strategy of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, of accusing the Government of Pedro Sánchez that the chaos of October 30 and 31 and of the day 1, 2 and 3 of November It was his responsibility.
Given the seriousness of the revelations, some already published by eldiario.es, the vice president and spokesman of the Consell, Susana Camarero, hastened to look for responsible: the technicians. “The offers were not rejected [de más de 120 lugares de España y siete de fuera de España]. The resources were progressively incorporated according to their operational capabilities and the possibilities of action and management. It was carried out according to the technical criteria of the emergency operational direction. It was the operational direction of the emergency to which the offers of technical emergency personnel and It was the direction that managed when and who came. In no case did we have information about what politicians offered or decision in how many and when the emergencies of different parts of Spain arrived. It is an issue that remains in the technical criteria of the operational direction »”, argued waiter, directly pointing out, and incidentally passing the hot potato to the Diputación de Valencia, to the head of the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, José Miguel Basset.
But who is José Miguel Basset, the person on whom the Generalitat discharges a possible relief omission?
Basset was the technical face of the emergency in the first days, but it soon being separated from the focus by other members of the Valencian Emergency Agency present in the Cecopi, as was the case of Rosa Touris. Its version in the judicial procedure on the conversations that were at the Integrated Operational Coordination Center will be interesting, especially when the meeting of that agency was suspended several times so that the Minister of Justice, Salome Pradas, located the President of the Generalitat , Carlos Mazón.
Basset is, according to the flood plan and the Emergency Law, the person who run the emergency on October 29. It was the one who, for example, was the first in the chain of command that ordered the withdrawal at 3 pm from the forest firefighters who were measuring the Poyo ravine on the day of the Dana. If these firefighters had stayed to measure the flow scale until the 19 times that their workday ended, they would surely have noticed emergencies. And it is that the Provincial Firefighters Consortium is the entity that coordinates the forest firefighters of the Generalitat in flood episodes. Basset will have to explain whether these orders had a political or technical responsibility.
This newspaper has tried to gather Basset’s opinion, but sources from the Valencia Diputación have explained that, being the judicialized process, it will not make the information. They also claim that the head of the Provincial Consortium is a technician.
José Miguel Basset will retire this March, so he will have all the time to prepare his interventions in the investigation commissions and in the investigations followed by the Court of Instruction number 3 of Catarroja. As Eldiario.es has learned, the Valencia Diputación already prepares the public process to replace it. The figure of the provincial chief is key in the structure of emergency management in the province of Valencia. Both in future floods and fires.
As this newspaper already said, “in theirs it is very good,” said the people who know him. But his specialty is the great forest fires, which are the most common natural catastrophes of recent years in the Valencian Community. The body that directs is especially recognized by the release of bodies, something that was very necessary in this catastrophe.
The Generalitat’s strategy has spent weeks to point out emergency technicians as responsible for some of the most controversial decisions. What they have not yet clarified is, why the Cecopi stopped several times between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Was it paralyzed to make an important decision about ES-Alert? Did they expect the president’s validation? Basset will be key to clarifying this and other questions of the judge, the accusations or the Prosecutor’s Office.
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