The call list of October 29 of former Conssellera Salomé Pradas, delivered to the investigating judge of the case, evidence that on the day of the Dana the priority of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, were not communications with their emergency head. Mazón was incommunicado for Pradas despite three calls from the then Minister who were not treated between 18.30 and 19.43, when the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) was paralyzed and hundreds of people drowned or remained caught by floods. Just in that recess, the ES-Alert message was prepared, that the president of the Generalitat has always defended that he was not delayed with his absence.
Salome Pradas, according to the notarial document to which Eldiario.es has had access, tried to contact the president of the Generalitat at 12.52, but did not get an answer. Half an hour before, the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, had offered him the Military Emergency Unit (UME), which was not activated until 15.30. In the first call attempt, Mazón was outside the Generalitat Palau in an act of health.
Subsequently, Mazón returned to Palau to participate in a meeting with employers and unions until 14.30. Minutes after that meeting, the president went to food at the El Ventorro restaurant. Since Mazón came to eat with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana until 17.37, the Chief of the Consell ignored his Minister, who had called him unsuccessfully at 16.29. Three hours illocalyizable while Utiel drowned and chiva was razed by the fury of water. And when the Valencian executive had already activated the UME (Pradas did so that it was deployed in Utiel-Requena na 15.30).
Mazón did not return to Pradas the call until 17.37 and spoke with her at 18.28 for 28 seconds. And another 33 seconds at 18.30. After these connections, Mazónizable another hour was illocalizable. Salome Pradas tried to connect with Mazón at 19.10 and 19.36, but could only be done with the president of the Generalitat at 19.43. It is important to point out that, at that time where Mazón was out of play for the Minister, the region of L’Horta Sud was drowning and when more fatalities occurred.
With whom the emergency department did communicate with the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé. Both leaders exchanged calls 14 times, although three times they had problems. The first call occurred at 12.23, when the Government delegate asked Pradas to request the activation of the Military Emergency Unit, according to the Judge of the Dana last Monday.
Bernabé alluded in his statement to the problems of telephone connection of Mazón during the day of October 29. In contrast to the ‘disconnection’ of the Chief of the Consell, Pradas chose to contact part of the presidency team on several occasions, including, among others, the regional secretaries José Manuel Cuenca, head of the president’s cabinet, and Cayetano García Ramírez.
The first call that the Minister receives is from the press head of the Minister of Agriculture, who contacts her on several occasions. The first policy head that speaks with the Minister Pradas is the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, who calls her at 8.56 and talks a couple of minutes, an hour after the AEMET raises the red notice for the entire province of Valencia, including the capital. From that moment on, the Minister begins to make a round of calls with her seconds on board: she calls the regional secretary, Emilio Argüeso, and the general director of Emergencies, Alberto Martín Moratilla.
With the president he does not try until 12.52, although the so -called figure as canceled. Mazón spent that morning of act in act and reported, at 11.48 that he had not a hydrological alert in the Magro River even though, two minutes before, the Emergency Coordination Center, under the then Department of Salome Pradas, had activated it.
Source: www.eldiario.es
