The person responsible for emergencies in the Valencian Government during the dana, Salomé Pradas, begins to give more details about the management on October 29 and the late sending of the alert, in addition to what she declared before the Catarroja judge. The former head of Justice and Interior, investigated along with her number two in the case being investigated by the Catarroja magistrate with 229 deaths, has confirmed to elDiario.es that she called the president of the Generalitat Valenciana in the critical hours in the management of the emergency, when the sending of the Es-Alert was being addressed.
When asked by elDiario.es, the former councilor maintains that she always reported everything to the president of the Generalitat. “From what we knew, from what we didn’t know, it’s impossible,” he adds. Thus, regarding the 7:10 p.m. call that Salomé Pradas makes to Carlos Mazón and the president does not answer her as he was missing in his 36 blank minutes, Pradas explains to this medium that he had the intention of informing him of the possible launch of the ES-Alert mass alert. “We were not going to talk about the weekend or the budgets, that moment coincides with the moment in which the ES-Alert is presented and debated,” argues the former councilor. Furthermore, five minutes earlier, Pradas had been informed that the situation in Paiporta was extreme and people were drowning.
Pradas sent a notarial record to the court with the calls he made throughout the day. He tried to contact the president and his team on 19 occasions at critical moments. Eight calls were lost or canceled, according to the documentation, as elDiario.es already reported. One of the key moments in the management of the emergency that the instruction will address was around 7 p.m., according to the calls and according to the witnesses who have come to testify. In the minutes that the former councilor presents to the court there are two “canceled” calls on her device, one at 7:10 p.m. and another at 7:36 p.m. Meanwhile, the councilor spoke with the president’s right-hand man, Cayetano García, the regional secretary of the Presidency. After the battery of calls to his team at the Palau, the president will call Pradas again at 8:10 p.m., a call that he hid in his conference at the Ritz, one minute before the alert was sent.
The former councilor maintains that she has not changed her version with respect to the one she expressed to the Catarroja judge. “Those of us who were there were there and with the information we had we did it. We didn’t wait for anyone, nor did anything delay anything. I want to be fair. Another thing is that the truth of everything that everyone did that day must be known, I must be at the foot of the canyon,” she defends when asked by this newspaper. “Every video that comes out corroborates it,” he says.
The former councilor, who has been demanding “that the whole truth be known” since the moment she was investigated, has broken her silence in recent weeks after the Valencia Court opened the way to investigate the actions or omissions of the president of the Generalitat during October 29. On Monday, the judge requested from the Valencian Courts the list of calls provided by the Presidency of the Generalitat, a manuscript on the communications that the president maintained, and which omits the calls made by the then councilor and Mazón did not respond.
The accused former councilor now admits that she telephoned the president to discuss the message. The moment coincides with when the mobile phone alert system is presented and debated. The canceled calls are part of Mazón’s 36 blank minutes, where the president does not report any communication or location. He left the restaurant where he was eating, according to his latest version, around 6:45 p.m., to accompany the journalist to the parking lot, and from there he went to the Palau de la Generalitat, a ten-minute walk away. However, on-site sources point out that they saw him enter the building minutes before 8 p.m. and someone familiar with his security device points out that he went home from the restaurant.
The former councilor has assured that she kept the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, informed of all the procedures that were carried out in the Integrated Operational Cooperation Center (Cecopi) on the day of the dana, including the sending of the Es-Alert message to the mobile phones of the population of the province of Valencia, as cited by the EFE Agency.
Source: www.eldiario.es
