The ex -consellera Salome Pradas has declared before the judge of the Dana who ignored everything related to emergency management and has discharged in the technicians the responsibility of the operational decisions of October 29. The ex -consellera has affirmed that the technicians of the Chamber of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) added “100 years of emergency experience”, according to several sources consulted by Eldiario.es.
The former for the Ministry of Justice and Interior has affirmed that “throughout the afternoon [del 29 de octubre] There was no talk of the Poyo ravine in the Cecopi “and has assured that” at no time “they told him that he was going to overflow. Pradas has contributed a list of“ more than 100 calls he made and received ”, including emergencies, to the presidency of the Generalitat and the Chief of the Consell, Carlos Mazón.
Salome Pradas considers that the ES-ALErt message was not “late or wrong”, since it was sent at the time that “there was record” of the possible breakage of the Foraata dam, from which it takes “10 minutes to send it.” The exconsellera has denied that Mazón be expected to send the automatic alert to the mobiles. “The president was not expected to make any decision,” he reiterated.
Between the text and the validation of the message, Pradas calculates that approximately half an hour passed. The ex -consellera has assured that she proposed to evacuate the population that could be affected by the breakage of the Forata dam and told her that such a measure could be “counterproductive.” The investigated has assured that the ES-ALErt was in “test phase” and that it had a “provisional character.”
On shipping management, he has alluded to Jorge Suárez, emergency deputy director and his press team and the then head of the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, José Miguel Basset, (who “did not get up from the table, but also must have been”).
Salome Pradas has expressly cited Basset as responsible for recommending the “most suitable protection measures for population protection.”
Pradas, very affected, has affirmed that it was “at the foot of the canyon from the first minute.” The ex -consellera has also declared: “To deal with the emergence of the caliber we were facing did not depend on a simple decision of a person.”
He also assured that “on several occasions” he spoke with the regional secretary of the Presidency, Cayetano García Ramírez, and with the chief of Cabinet, José Manuel Cuenca, and with “the president” Mazón, to which “I was moving what happened in the Cecopi.”
Pradas has ruled out that the Chief of the Consell had something to do with the delay in sending the alert message and has awarded the decision to the technicians. “The necessary information was not had because the overflow of the Poyo ravine was unknown, so there was no delay. When it was proposed, it was done, although the procedure would take,” said the former consolera.
The investigated has affirmed that “all” were experts with “well -known experience” and to “coordinate”, except her and the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé. The ex -consellera of the Government of Carlos Mazón, in tears, has affirmed to questions of her lawyer that, in terms of emergencies, he only held an institutional position and there were technical bodies with the corresponding officials. “The measures were proposed by the technicians,” said the investigated.
The accused recalled that she was barely three months in the position of Minister of Justice and Interior “trying to do the best” and, therefore, was the “first time” that faced an emergency of such magnitude.
112 calls
Despite being in annexed buildings, Pradas has assured that information did not arrive at the Cecopi about the thousands of calls that arrived from hours before 112 and stressed that the service is managed by “a company”. “That was up to the room technicians [del 112] and emergency technicians. It was a entrustment to a company, that can be said that was in the Cecopi. ”
He has also insisted that the Generalitat “reported through social networks” with “Tope Twitter.” “I published the notices retweeting them, because I carry my networks. There were also notices in the 112 app, which is a very useful app,” he said.
Attack against the central government
To shake the responsibility, Pradas has passed to the attack on institutions dependent on the central government. He has lashed out at the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ), which “should have played the role of surveillance of the flows” and informed to the municipalities.
On the other hand, the ex -conssellera has tried to clarify that it was the “Single Command” of the emergency, as the instructor magistrate maintains and reflects the regulations. Pradas has assured that, at level 2 of emergency, there is a “coordinated and collegiate single direction” between it and Bernabé “to guarantee greater coordination”.
He has also declared that the Generalitat has a “intermediation function” between the users of 112 and their integrated agencies, in addition to the CHJ, Aemet and the municipalities. “I want to make it clear that there is no regional civil protection body,” he said.
Against Aemet, another state agency, has lashed out saying that his forecast “failed loudly” because “it was never reported that there were rains of 700 liters per square meter.”
Salome Pradas has lashed out especially at the president of the CHJ, Miguel Polo, who has said that, when she and her team were in the morning in Carlet, he was in university days. “Very worried should not be,” he said.
He has also assured that the Automatic Hydrological Information System (SAIH) “has no legal effects” and has downloaded the responsibility of “translating” the data to warn of the danger of the flows.
He has also put the focus, as the PP has been doing in recent months, in the works that in his opinion the CHJ – dependent of the Ministry of Ecological Transition – should have done in the channels: “The works of the poyo or those of Saleta could have mitigated the consequences.”
Finally, he said that he should have “declared the emergency of national interest”; But he has not referred to why the government of which she was the most responsible for emergencies did not raise the level to “catastrophic emergency”, something that fell under the competence of Carlos Mazón executive.
Source: www.eldiario.es
