The emergency chief who validated the Dana’s message: « At 7.00 in the morning, it was expected that something was going to happen » | News from the Valencian Community

Miguel M., the emergency chief who validated the Mass message to mobiles sent by the Generalitat to notify the population of the DANA riskhe thought at 7:00 a.m. on the day of the tragedy that « something was going to happen. » That « something » became the greatest natural catastrophe that has devastated the province of Valencia, the flood that left 228 dead and a trail of destruction last October.

The Autonomous Administration did not send the alert to the phones until 20.11 hours, as confirmed by its full statement as a witness before the Judge of Catarroja (Valencia) that instructs the cause, Nuria Ruiz Tobarra. The country has had access to the appearance.

When the letter sneaked into the phones, dozens of missing, deceased and people trapped in low floors and garages of populations such as paiporta or catarroja. And 112, the switchboard that managed the crisis, had been receiving despair calls four hours before from municipalities such as Chiva or Cheste, where the Poyo ravine, tromba tromba, born.

Miguel M. admitted to the magistrate that at 8.00 in the morning of the day of the day of the day he detected an incidence in the telephone calls of 112. The problem did not collapse the system, it was repaired two days later, but produced that the audio was not heard in 10% of the communications. On the day of the Dana, almost 20,000 neighbors marked the emergency number. « In the calls that were not heard, you had to hang and call again. It is an annoying operation. I spoke with the deputy director at 14.50 hours (of October 29). I asked him to be a very worrying problem and that, please, they would help him. » The command indicated that the communications device also registered another ruling at 5.00 in the morning of October 29. And a « more serious » incidence between 21.52 of the flood day and 2.00 hours the next day.

The Judicial appearance In addition, it reveals that Miguel M., who serves as Technology of 112 and head of the Communications Section of the Valencian Agency for Security and Emergency Response (AVSRE), participated on October 27, 2022 in the first test in Valencia de Es Alert. He explained that this technology does not detect whether the letter « has been delivered to a 10,000 OA phone » and acknowledged that in some terminals « the notification does not sound. » He said that, in 2023, they put this mechanism in the Alicante region of the Vega Baja. And that it was never used again, « despite the recommendation of the General Directorate of doing a test per year. » The drills serve, he added, to determine if this mechanism « is active and works. » The former counselor of justice and interior during the flood, the accused Salome Pradas, acknowledged that she learned of the existence of Es Alert the same night of the catastrophe.

Miguel M. also admitted to the judge that the Wi -Fi connection of the Cecopi, the autonomic emergency organ that coordinated the crisis, remained operational « depending on places. » « There was a cut in the guest wifi, a promiscuous network of low security. (…) fell more or less at the same time as mobile telephony, between 6.30 p.m. and 7.30 pm, » said the command in his statement as a witness, where he was forced to tell the truth and respond to all parties: judge, prosecutor, defenses and popular and particular accusations.

In his appearance, this command explained that the Generalitat He was sending the mass alert at 6:36 p.m., more than an hour and a half before shipping. It was then that the Deputy Director of Autonomous Emergency, Jorge Suárez, suggested this possibility. An assertion that contradicts the Pradas Declaration, which indicated that the notice « from 7:00 p.m. » began to be assessed.  » The former counselor, who appeared as accused, does not have the obligation to tell the truth.

The sending of the Estaert has become the cornerstone of the investigations. The judge believes that if it had been sent before and better- his text did not mention the need to climb to the first plants- the number of deaths would have descended.