The acting president Carlos Mazón, with difficulty, detailed the calls he made on the afternoon of October 29, 2024, the day of the catastrophic disaster that left 229 dead. However, other communications that he had that day while he was at the El Ventorro restaurant with the journalist Maribel Vilaplana are unknown. Specifically with WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging application. Vilaplana, according to the minutes of his statement on November 3, to which elDiario.es has had access, explained to the judge that Mazón “was constantly on his cell phone.”
While she put away her cell phone, the president had his terminal on the table and was answering calls, which the communicator did not hear.
“Remember that above all he WhatsApped, or wrote messages,” indicates the record of Vilaplana’s statement.
The witness did not hear the calls that Carlos Mazón had with the then Minister Salomé Pradas or with his Presidency team. In any case, “he believes that Mazón listened more than he spoke.”
When asked by the lawyer of one of the accusations, the witness confirmed that the head of the Consell “had written conversations, she does not know what he wrote through, if not through WhatsApp,” according to the minutes of the statement.
Former councilor Salomé Pradas voluntarily contributed to the cause a notarial record that outlined her calls on the day of the dana (reproduced in full by this newspaper). However, he did not provide anything regarding his WhatsApp, SMS or any other messaging application messages.
On the contrary, the former regional Secretary of Emergencies, Emilio Argüeso, provided an expert report on his calls and, also, on his WhatsApp messages.
Source: www.eldiario.es
