“Killer.” Salomé Pradas heard this Friday the shouts of a victim a few centimeters away – almost face to face – during his injured access to the city of justice of Valencia, where he was cited as investigated before the judge of the Dana. Perhaps it would have been more accurate to voit “reckless homicides”, the crime that indicates the magistrate instructor to Pradas, but the situation was not exactly conducive to legal technicisms: Victoria Sánchez, the woman who shouted until she was disagree with the ex -consistency of the autonomous government of Carlos Mazón, lost her husband on October 29. “I am very cold and fear. I want to be a lifetime with you. Goodbye.” That was the last message he wrote. When, just over two weeks ago, the woman was waiting to declare before Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, before entering the room, she kissed the photo she was carrying from her late husband. The scene – as no – caused a deep impression to the two journalists who witnessed it. The woman, agilely, was placed very close to the Minister who held the Single Emergency Command to Silling him: “You have killed my husband.” Before the widow who shouted with the help of a small megaphone, a Civil Guard agent extended her arms in the head with her head, halfway between her official custodian function of the city of justice and the metaphorical and respectful hug.
The ex -consellera Salome Pradas arrived at the appointment with the Judge of the Dana wrapped by an exceptional media deployment and with the echo of the citizen protest. “Care,” Pradas repeated 22 times exact to the cameras, photographers and journalists who, hardly, tried to take out some statement and, at the same time, dodge the obstacles that were interposed on the road. Oh, if Salome Pradas had said on October 29 “Be careful, please”; Another rooster would sing and Victoria Sánchez, probably, would not have had to leave the voice and soul. The fact that Pradas did not ask once “care” before the Dana is precisely the essence of the criminal reproach of the instructor judge: the 228 deaths would have been avoidable without the alleged negligence imputed to the former Conmesellera and the former Autonomic Emergency Secretary, Emilio Argüeso.
Pradas constantly moved in the Tirarant room, the scene of his expected public appearance after his dismissal. The victims shout and the ex -consellera cries: it is an convoluted paradox of the complex atmosphere left by the catastrophe. The ex -consellera told her lawyer, the only one she lent to answer, the late display before the Dana. At the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), he was a simple institutional representative, accompanied by a series of technicians who added “more than 100 years of emergency experience”. She, on the contrary, a mere commercial law teacher, “had no technical knowledge.”
Despite being part of the Consell “Of the best” of Carlos Mazón – that cheap telemarketing expression sold by the head of the Autonomous Executive – the emergency negotiated was not even his own. However, it was “at the foot of the canyon from the first minute”, although the judge questioned that it served something.
Pradas stressed that “on several occasions” he spoke by phone with Mazón and his team (the autonomous secretaries Cayetano García Ramírez and José Manuel Cuenca). However, Mazón did not get up from the food table (or, practically, snack-cena) in the ventor and reached the Cecopi at 20.28, according to its latest version of the facts. Although, in no case, he delayed the decision to send the automatic message to the mobiles, Pradas declared.
The ex-manager considers that the shipment-at 20.11-of the ES-Alert was not “late or erroneous”, as the instructor judge maintains, because the Cecopi was pending the possible overflow of the Foramaida dam and there was not even talk “in the entire afternoon” of the Poyo ravine.
In addition to the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) and, singularly, its president, Miguel Polo, the investigated pointed to the head of the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, José Miguel Basset, who said he was responsible for recommending the measures “most suitable for the protection of the population”. After a first purely propaganda phase by the Palau de la Generalitat, the Declaration of Salome Pradas inaugurated a new stage: the body’s judicial battle.
The ex -consellera left two keys: “the measures were proposed by the technicians” and “dealing with the emergence of the caliber we were facing did not depend on a simple decision of a person.” Despite the expectation, Pradas did not shoot up.
After her tearful statement, the ex -consellera hid and avoided leaving the city of justice for the main entrance, through which any neighbor’s son passes. And that, upon arrival, he had promised that he would give statements once the bad drink before the judge, the prosecutor and the lawyers of the accusations. Apparently, according to some sources, the State Security Forces and Bodies evaluated that it was more convenient for Pradas to come out clandestinely, in the image and likeness of the aforementioned Mazón.
While the declaration of Salome Pradas was what was expected, his previous ‘number two’ staged a slightly less cured defense strategy. Emilio Argüeso agreed with Pradas that he did not paint too much in the Cecopi: he simply “gave her opinion” (despite being the director of the Valencian security agency and emergency response).
The former regional Secretary, faithful to his collar trajectory, shot with better aim than his former boss. He slipped that Jorge Suárez, the senior official who serves as a general emergency deputy director, was on vacation despite the notices (he advanced his return on October 29) and said that the communication head “did not communicate anything that occurred outside.” The Cecopi, therefore, did not find out about the tremendous images that the autonomous, live television broadcast, the overflow of the Poyo ravine.
Although Emilio Argüeso’s main target was José Miguel Basset, the veteran firefighter who withdrew the troops who measured the flow of the deadly Barranco del Poyo without warning “anyone”, according to the accused. Argüeso learned of that important detail a month after the Dana, when Eldiario.es revealed it, as can be seen from the expert report on his communications that he contributed shortly before his statement.
That was chaos; There was no doubt after the declaration of the two releases of the Mazón Executive. Both investigated responded only to the questions of their lawyers, some common sense from the point of view of legal defense and, more, in such a primal phase of instruction. The lawyers of the accusations were unable to interrogate Pradas and Argüeso (one of the lawyers had prepared a hundred questions).
The few victims who awaited the exit of those who, according to their screams, consider “murderers”, were left without knowing where Pradas and argüeso escaped. A little like the management of the Dana, which still has serious lagoons despite the active instruction of the judge. At least, with the first statements of those investigated it was confirmed that some ineptitude of some public positions had enough to do with the catastrophic result. An accused was limited to giving his opinion in the Cecopi, as any contestulio, and the other had no idea of anything. The technicians did not look either.
The only certainty is that Victoria Sánchez’s husband died, like 227 victims. And the doubt, at this point, is whether it was for reckless homicide.
Source: www.eldiario.es
