The Government delegate in Valencia declares that she provided the UME to the Generalitat eight hours earlier than the alert | News from the Valencian Community | EUROtoday

The Government Delegate within the Valencian Community, the socialist Pilar Bernabé, stated Monday that he provided the Military Emergency Unit (UME) to the Generalitat Valenciana eight hours earlier than the Government of Carlos Mazón despatched the alert to cellphones to tell the inhabitants of the magnitude of the tragedy. In his assertion as a witness within the Court of Catarroja (Valencia) that instructs the inquiries of the flood, Bernabé defined that he contacted the then Minister of Justice and Interior of the Government of Carlos Mazón, Salome Pradas, at 12.23 hours of the day of the Dana, on October 29, to supply him the army machine, based on sources current in his assertion. The Valencian Executive despatched the huge SMS to the telephones at 20.11 hours, when there have been already dozens of deaths, lacking and folks trapped in low flooring and garages.

Bernabé is declaring as a witness to the decide who criminally instructs the inquiries of the chilly drop, Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, from 9.45 hours.

Unlike final Friday, when the 2 expenses of Carlos Mazón Executive – the previous counselor of Justice and Interior of the Generalitat Salome Pradas and who was his second, the previous emergency deputy director Emilio Argüeso – Bernabé has not been unbelieved on the entrance of the glazed swarm of places of work of town of Justice of Valencia. Dozens of relations of victims then obtained the 2 former leaders to the shout of “Mazón, resignation!” or “Mazón, Putero!”

Bernabé, that as a witness ought to inform the reality and reply to all events, has indicated earlier than coming into the court docket that won’t keep away from any of the questions. The dozens of explicit accusations could formulate points (most are relations of fatalities), the favored ones – which train events resembling Podemos, Vox, Citizens or the PSOE -, the prosecutor and legal professionals of the previous Mazón expenses charged within the investigations,

Since the judicial instruction began, 5 months in the past, Bernabé has grow to be the goal of the intense proper organizations, as if to listen to, who’ve resorted to his determine to attempt to maintain the thesis of the accountability of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez within the monumental flood. An argument that the trainer already dominated out, insisting on the “autonomous competition” of the tragedy, and the Public Ministry, which dismissed the attraction of this Ultra Organization.

The Prosecutor’s Office then estimated that Bernabé didn’t commit any irregularity by not urging the Ministry of Interior to the assertion of the state of emergency after the chilly drop. “Such an argument is absurd. It is as if, before a traffic accident with injuries and deaths, several drivers denote the help of the victims, and a complaint is formalized against one of the drivers,” the Public Ministry then justified in a short.

The assertion as a Bernabé witness develops two days after the 2 former leaders of the Mazón Executive investigated declared earlier than the Justice of the Peace. Pradas and Argüeso wielded traced exculpatory thesis to justify their work within the tragedy, discharged their accountability within the technicians and explicitly protected those that catapulted them to the primary line of the Valencian politics, Carlos Mazón. The investigations instruct the alleged crimes of murder and reckless accidents, that are punished between 4 and three years in jail, respectively.

The president of the Diputación de Valencia, Vicent Mompó, of the PP, may even declare as we speak as a witness to Judge Tobarra.