Two experts from the DANA commission ensure that the risks would have been minimized with the projected works | Spain
On a much more tense day than the initial on Mondayfor the criticism of PSOE and Compromís to the first intervener on Tuesday, the Senate has held the second session of the DANA Research Commission with the intervention of technical experts. The first to speak has been the architect Julio Gómez-Pertta, at the request of the PP, author of a very hard opinion article under the title Sánchez and the miserable left in the provinces in which the former Valencian president Ximo Puig and his law of the garden of being “the head of the head that the connection between the ravine (of the poyo) and the new channel of the Turia” was blamed. This Tuesday, Gómez-Pertta has charged in the first place against the central government for not having undertaken the infrastructure raised for the Poyo ravine since 2010. But he has also assured that the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, « was wrong » for not « giving command » to the Moncloa during the days after the tragedy, understanding that the situation was clearly of level 3 of emergency. The PP, which promoted the parliamentary commission with its absolute majority prevented the members of the Generalitat Valenciana, with the exception of Mazón, to go to the Upper House.
After blaming the Central Executive for “abandoned” the Valencian Community in the days after the tragedy, and in the question shift of the PSOE senator Juan Antonio Sagredo (mayor of Paterna), Gómez-Pertta has argued that the President Autonomic had no capacity to manage the crisis. « Mazón had to have yielded from minute one the command, I believe that Mr. Feijóo has also commented, » said the expert. « If Mr. Mazón was wrong and did not yield the command and that assumed that the next day we did not have a state intervention, I admit it. But, on the second day, when this is seen that it does not work, we cannot be seeing if he gives the command to the fourth day … the Valencians deserved greater attention by the State, » he added. At the time, The Government was declared « National Emergency »but he resigned so as not to strip Mazón from his competitions.
On the infrastructure projected since 2010 and not executed in the Zapatero, or Rajoy or Sánchez government, the architect Gómez-Pertta has considered that « it would have been a totally different catastrophe » and the water would not have reached the height it reached. « We would have wet our feet, » said the technical expert.
« Each government must be attributed to their responsibility, between 2010 and 2016 it could have acted, » he continued. But he has directly criticized the government of the Botànic Because, according to the architect « in press », he said, the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation acknowledged that the planned projects were incompatible with part of the law of the garden of the previous government of Ximo Puig.
In a subsequent appearance, the Dean of the College of Caminos, Canals and Ports Engineers of the Valencian Community Javier Machí has followed the same line as its predecessor by considering that these works not undertaken would have « laminated » before the riverbed, they would have caused the « decrease in the tip of the flows » and the people « would have had time (…) to react. » Although he has not accused the law of the garden as much as those who have managed its implementation.
Before the insistence of the popular senator Luis Santamaría, who has asked in « what percentage » those infrastructures dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition would have saved lives, Machí has been cautious. « I cannot dare, because it depends on other circumstances, for example, the vehicles that went by secondary roads and accessed the A-3 did not know that it was broken, who warned them? Nobody, » said the expert. « Lives would have been saved, that’s from drawer, » Machí has settled more blunt. « The problem would have moved to another site, » he added.
Compromís and the PSOE have defended that these actions were not materialized with the Mariano Rajoy executive, which caused, in his opinion, his delay. « The necessary works were not done because Rajoy let the Environmental Impact Declaration expire. And what had to be done? Comply with the law and make a new environmental impact statement: the current government has done it, » added the Compromís parliamentarian in conversation with Machí. « In 2018 it is found that a project that had to be executed had been paralyzed. Since that time the projects have been rescued and are currently an environmental processing phase. The current government’s commitment is to resume these actions, » added the socialist senator Eva María Redondo.
Both the Senator of Compromís Morera and the socialist Sagredo have also persisted in his criticisms against the spirit of the commission promoted of the popular, who have ruled out delving into the responsibilities of the Generalitat Valenciana, claiming that this extreme must be analyzed in the Dana de Les Cortes Research Commission, also controlled by the PP, in which the presidency has yielded to Voxwhich has not set the calendar for now. « The tribute (to the victims and volunteers) would be to bring here those responsible for emergencies, you are a work responsible, » Morera told the architect Gómez-Pertta. “The operation Save the soldier Mazón It is becoming a series of catastrophic misfortunes, ”said Sagredo, after Monday the first appearance of the commission dismantled several arguments of the Popular Party against the Central Government. According to the formation of Feijóo, the lack of cleanliness by the Ministry of Ecological Transition aggravated the personal and material damage of the DANA in the zero zone. But the professor of hydraulic engineering and environment From Valencia Juan Bautista Marco ruled out that it was so.
