The Mazón authorities ignored Dana’s day the alert of its ‘quantity two’ of emergencies | News from the Valencian Community | EUROtoday

Emilio Argüeso, Autonomous Emergency Secretary of the Government of Carlos Mazón in the course of the Dana and charged within the case that criminally investigates this tragedy that left 228 useless and a path of destruction, warned the Generalitat of the severity of the disaster within the early afternoon of October 29. “The ravines are about to collapse,” he wrote at 14.44 hours of the Aciaga Day in an inside chat of the Autonomous Executive, in response to an knowledgeable report of his phone to which the nation has had entry. The doc has been contributed by Argüeso to the top of the Court of Instruction quantity 3 of Catarroja (Valencia), Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, which criminally investigates the flood.

In a WhatsApp group entitled Department of Social Services of Equality and Housing, after warning of the chance of overflowing the ravines, the exalted place receives a response from the quantity two Mazón, Vice President Susana waiter. “JOPE. If you need anything you tell us (sic).” Half an hour earlier than, Argüeso has reported within the messaging utility the drift that the chilly drop acquires: “I am in Carlet (Valencia, 16,141 inhabitants), the thing is getting very ugly”, “it is raining with a lot of intensity and electrical apparatus,” says one other of its texts.

In addition to addressing the thrombus, within the chat there may be additionally house for humor. “I have forgotten the oars, but I carry manguitos floats !!!

Despite the magnitude of the tragedy, another Consell leader shares at 17.37 hours a teletype of a strike called by CC. Oo. to claim improvements in social services. When this message is published in the group, the Poyo ravine, trigger for the catastrophe, has already overflowed in populations such as Chiva or Cheste and 112, the Telephone Device of the Generalitat, begins to collapse with dozens of calls of despair of missing or trapped in low floors and garages.

At 9:35 p.m., when the deceased accumulate, Vice President waiter writes in the group: “There is a whole lot of hazard with the reservoir. Who lives x there that climbs to the highest. That folks don’t depart house and shield themselves (sic).”

Another of the expert report chats collects the conversations between the number two of emergencies and her boss, the former counselor of Justice and Interior Salome Pradas, who is also charged. “Have you talked to Catalá?” Asks the latter in allusion a surname that coincides with that of the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, of the PP. Argüeso replies that yes. “It doesn’t shut colleges,” he adds. “Perfect okk (sic),” concludes the former counselor.

Pradas indicates to his second at 16.51 in the afternoon: “I know you are full, but I just called Pepe Forés [alcalde de Llombai]is with mayors of the area. They have to climb 15 km to be able to talk on the phone. No electricity, water etc. It tells me that there is a lot of chaos because they do not have J training due to lack of information. They do not know if more rains are expected or if there is forecast to restore electricity etc (sic). ”

Although the transfer of messages reveals that the Valencian government dome knew the severity of the Dana from noon, the Generalitat did not send the alert to mobiles until 20.11 hours, when there were already dozens of missing people, killed and trapped in garages and low floors of Valencian populations such as Catarroja, Paiporta or Benetússer. The counselor Justice acknowledged that he did not know the existence of the message system to telephones It is allerT that, according to the judge who instructs the investigations, would have been key to minimize the impact of the tragedy. The instructor argues that the letter was late and her confusing text.

The Justice of the Peace charged on March 10, Argüeso and Pradas for the alleged crimes of reckless damage and homicides, that are punished between 4 and three years in jail, respectively. Both, which have been dismissed by Mazón 4 weeks after the chilly drop, will declare as investigated this Friday within the metropolis of Justice of Valencia.