1 week Ago By ARA
This Friday is a key day in the investigation to clarify the responsibility of Carlos Mazón's government in the deaths of 227 people due to the DANA (National Aerospace Damage) in the Valencian Community. Former Interior Minister Salomé Pradas, dismissed following the tragedy, is the one who is attracting most attention. Starting at 12 noon, she will appear before the Catarroja judge investigating the case as a defendant for alleged reckless homicide and injuries.
Shortly before, her former deputy, former Emergency Secretary Emilio Argüeso, will appear. He has already begun to distance himself from Pradas. which states that at that point the situation in some municipalities was already chaotic and the ravines were "on the verge of collapse.
" The situation in the ravines improved after a while, but the water flow quickly rose again without the local population being alerted. The Valencian Generalitat (Generalitat) did not send the mass alert until 8:11 p.m.
, despite real-time data on the floods and calls to 112 for help from 5:00 p.m. Pradas is under pressure from the judge, now also from messages from her number two, and even from the official version of the Valencian government, which points to her, not Mazón, as the person responsible for the emergency—she was the one leading it.
For the moment, she has paid with her dismissal from her position, but now faces criminal proceedings, for which she could even have to answer with jail time. The instructor's thesis The instructor's thesis is that the Generalitat about the serious risk that Valencians were running due to the DANA and yet, he did nothing until hours later. Also key will be Argüeso's statement, who provided evidence of a chat between him and other senior officials of the Generalitat in which he warned of the "intensity" of the rains in the early afternoon.
In addition to Pradas, the First Vice President and Minister of Social Services, Equality and Housing, Susana Camarero, was also present in that conversation, and she also showed signs of knowing how complicated the situation was in some areas, such as Utiel-Requena, around 5:20 p.m. In any case, the Valencian Government has tried to remove the shadow of doubt from Mazón by arguing that he did not reach the The PP leader had just returned from the famous (and controversial) lunch at El Ventorro with journalist Maribel Vilaplana.
Five months later, a segment of Valencian civil society continues to exert pressure in the streets. and protests calling for Mazón's resignation..
