An emergency chief of the Generalitat admits that they knew the overflow of the poyo an hour and a half before sending the alert | News from the Valencian Community

An emergency chief of the Generalitat Valenciana has admitted on Tuesday before the judge investigating the Dana, Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, that the regional administration knew the overflow of the Poyo ravine, trigger for the tragedy, at 6:45 p.m. on October 29, according to El País sources present in their appearance.

Despite this flow of information, the Generalitat did not send the massive alert to mobiles until 20.11 hours, when there were already dozens of deaths, missing and people trapped in low floors and garages. A fact that has been revealed in the cornerstone of the investigations. The magistrate connects in her cars this delay with the deaths.

In his judicial statement as a witness, JR Cuevas has explained that they had ready the system is alert of mass messages from 5:00 p.m. and that he was in charge of transmitting the notification issued by the Exconsellera of justice and interior during the flood, the accused Salome Pradas. Along with the delay in shipping, the notification did not ask the population to climb to the first plants.

« The Minister It arrives at 7.45 am with the writing of the message with a generic content for the entire province (of Valencia), ”said Cuevas, who works as head of the analysis and monitoring of the Cecopi risk, the emergency organ of the Generalitat that managed the crisis. And has declared as a witness. A condition that forces him to tell the truth and to answer all the parties: judges, prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors, prosecutors.

He has insisted that the notification was not sent until he was authorized by Pradas. And that the emergency emergency followed the emergency deputy director, Jorge Suárez, and the president of the Diputación de Valencia, Vicente Mompó. « There were many more people, looking. » « The Cecopi room was a fucking madness, we did not supply. It was impossible to manage. There were constant beeps, » he recalled.

The witness has stood out before the judge that the Spanish Meteorology Agency (Aemet) warned that the Dana would move to the Serranía de Cuenca on the afternoon of October 29. The same erroneous thesis that defended the President Mazón the morning of the cold drop, when he also described as « exaggerated » the decision of the University of Valencia to suspend the classes.

Cuevas has stated that they knew the risk of the flood one day before. And that this information came from the analysis of the Aemet forecast. He has also said that on October 28, on the eve of the Tragedy Day, the state agency sent a notice at 23.00. « The (notices) are issued by AEMET when the situation affects several municipalities, and it is a special notice, because it can be a need for support from other communities, » he said.

The risk shot after the Aemet declared at 7.36 on October 29 the red level, the maximum of the scale and that is activated before a rain forecast of more than 180 liters per square meter. However, Cuevas has questioned the notices of this state agency that glimpsed the risk nine days before the DANA. « In this case, there were many sudden changes from a few hours to another, which leads him to think that it was not a good prediction, » he said.

After this assertion, the judge has asked the witness why institutions such as the University of Valencia gave the Aemet notices to make decisions such as the suspension of the classes. According to the witness, the educational institution « receives people from several sites. »

The emergency manager has argued that he had no relation to the two accused in the case, the former advice Pradas, and who was his second, Emilio Argüeso. And he has recognized that monitoring reports were made, a document with data on incidents in electricity supply or public transport with which they would have informed high positions of the Mazón Executive, as revealed last week another worker of the Autonomous Administration.

After processing this information, Cuevas recalled that the modus operating It goes on informing the municipal officials- some and councilors- of the magnitude of the cold drop by email, telephone and fax. And that the risk of the regions of La Ribera Alta and Baixa, the Safor and some municipalities of the Navarrés Canal was reported.