The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, defended before the dana judge the lurches of Carlos Mazón and his multiple versions of his steps on October 29, 2024, a tragic day that left 230 dead. This is stated in the minutes of his statement on January 9, to which elDiario.es has had access. The witness assured that “he knows the same thing that everyone knows regarding what Mazón did on the day of the dana: that he “went to a meal” and that prior to the agape he had given a press conference stating that the dana “ended” at 6:00 p.m. “He does not know what time he left the meal,” according to the statement.
The lawyer Miriam Salmerón, who exercises the popular accusation of the Association of Victims Dana October 29, 2024, asked Núñez Feijóo about her level of knowledge of Mazón’s steps that tragic day. “Mr. Mazón has not given him any information, except that he went to eat, that after the meal he went to the Palau and then to the Cecopi [Centro de Coordinación Operativa Integrado]”, as he stated.
Although, two days after the dana, the PP leader assured that Mazón had kept him informed in “real time”, before the investigating judge he acknowledged that they only spoke after 7:59 p.m., when Feijóo sent his Valencian baron a WhatsApp message asking him about the situation. From that moment on he was “connected” with Mazón, who had not even arrived at the Cecopi meeting at the l’Eliana Emergency Center.
The lawyer for the popular accusation asked the president of the PP if he had asked for “explanations” for the “changes in version that” Mazón has been making. However, Núñez Feijóo came out in defense of Mazón and said that “they are not version changes” but rather “concretions with minutes of the proceedings.”
“It seems that he accompanied a person to the parking lot”
“He did not ask Mr. Mazón if he entered a parking lot or not, it seems that he accompanied a person to the parking lot, what he did tell him is that he did not question the Es-Alert,” stated the witness in reference to the walk with Maribel Vilaplana, after the long meal and dinner in El Ventorro, to a parking lot in the Plaza de Tetuán, where the journalist had parked her vehicle.
“The minutes,” in any case, “is not your function to know in detail,” Feijóo said, according to the record of his statement.
On the other hand, the witness was also asked if he intervened in the resignation of Carlos Mazón. Alberto Núñez Feijóo explained that, in the days after the catastrophe, he told Mazón that “a very difficult” and “very complex” stage had to begin and that “he did not have complete means to be able to do it.” “For this reason,” he added, “he insisted on the declaration of emergency, and he was concerned that in the aid proposals there would be aid from the Government of Spain, to educational centers, centers owned by the Generalitat…”.
In the “crisis they were in later,” according to Feijóo, “no one wanted to assume a situation of enormous emergency from the State Administration.” “What they could not in any case was produce a political crisis,” he declared.
It was agreed with Mazón that he appear before the Valencian Courts so that he could “unite his political future to the success of reconstruction.” And “that’s how he did it,” he added. After those months of constant wear and tear on the Valencian president, the leader of the PP “had stayed” with him “after the state funeral” held in Valencia, in which Feijóo witnessed as director the requests for Mazón’s resignation from the victims of the dana.
Mazón’s resignation: “Is it a thoughtful decision?”
The record of Feijóo’s statement summarizes the conversations with the head of the Consell just before his resignation: “The day after the funeral, Mr. Mazón made some statements to the media that could be deduced that he was considering the possibility of resigning, and he asked him what those statements meant and he told him “Hey, I made the decision this weekend, I am going to present my resignation as president of the Generalitat.”
The president of the PP recounted the dialogue with Carlos Mazón:
—Is it a thoughtful decision?
-Yeah.
—Well, we had agreed to talk.
—Well, I’m telling you right now, this is my decision.
Feijóo: “A train accident has nothing to do with the dana”
On the other hand, Alberto Núñez Feijóo also recognized that the management of the dana emergency was autonomous, even referring to his experience as president of the Xunta de Galicia and, previously, as leader of the opposition.
For the witness, the dana of October 29, 2024 was the “most important catastrophe in the Iberian Peninsula since the Lisbon earthquake” of 1755. “A railway accident or a fire has nothing to do with the dana,” he clarified.
“The management of emergencies is assumed by the counselor who has powers in matters of civil protection,” acknowledged the witness, who alluded to the Alvia matter, in reference to the train accident in Angrois in 2013, in which 80 people died. In that case, Feijóo “appeared on the road and maintained meetings and coordination with the transport counselor, under the authority of the judge and the Minister of Public Works and the Adif authorities.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
