Nuria Ruiz Tobara, the judge in Cataluja (Valencia) investigating the damage, claims that the late notification of Secopi, the Generalita agency that orchestrated the tragedy that killed 229 people in Valencia on October 29, 2024, prevented the saving of lives.
The magistrate criticized the fact that the body set up to deal with the disaster – which included 29 representatives from local, regional and state agencies – convened at 3pm on the day of Dana. It will be held in 2 hours. And this delay has frustrated the implementation of life-saving measures in municipalities such as Utiel (11,703 inhabitants), where six people died when the Tuna River flooded. “(Sekopi) was not held immediately after the call. The delay was not only manifested as a general condition regarding the organization of protective measures for the population,” the instructor said in an order notified this Wednesday.
The state meteorological agency (Aemet) issued the maximum red warning at 7:36 a.m. on the day of the tragedy, but Sekopi was issued 10 hours later. And it all started when Carlos Mazon, acting president of the Popular Party of the Center, was enjoying an almost four-hour lunch (from 3pm to 6:45pm) at El Ventro restaurant with journalist Maribel Villaplana.
When the Sekopi trial began, the judge lamented that “no more steps could be taken to save the lives of Utiel’s victims, since at that time most of them were dead or on the verge of death. Similar things happened in the towns of L’Arcudia, Godereta, Turis, Trento and other towns.”
In addition to the delay, the judge will highlight the events that the device recorded. “The mutilation and mutilation of the participants’ statements, which should be reflected upon, continued,” the judge detailed. implying a stop As a result, participants who connected through the Zoom video application, such as socialist Pilar Bernabé, head of the Valencian government, were unable to participate in the discussion on the most relevant measure of the day: sending a mass message to mobile phones. The notification arrived on the phone at 8:11 p.m., by which time most of the missing people were already dead. And 17 minutes before Mazon landed on the crisis management device. The judge claims lives could have been saved if the alarm had been raised sooner.
In her last report, the instructor said she also remembered several deaths (the least of which) were recorded after the message was sent to the phone. He cited as an example the death of a minor in the city of Sotto de Chera, Valencia. “A woman and her 8-year-old daughter spent the night next to the lifeless body of her other youngest son,” Luis Tobara recalled.
The lecturer points out that the lack of warning also made the scale of the tragedy even greater. And it also mentions the 37 people who used Generalitat’s telecare services and died during the floods. “During this process, dozens of testimonies will be accumulated, including those who witnessed the death of a loved one, relatives who called the emergency services even though no results were obtained, those who warned of the specific place of death, those who said goodbye, those who tried to support their relatives physically and emotionally, and records of how the car in which they were traveling was dragged into the water,” the resolution details.
At the request of the prosecutor in the Valencian Cultural Agency (ACPV) case, the judge decided to incorporate the TVE documentary into the summary (already in 42 volumes). important time period. The instructor also requests “live images and audio” of the program from local public television À Punt. The image shows Mazon in Sekopi, Leliana at night, with the main defendant in the case, Salome Pradas, former Minister of Justice and Interior at the time of the floods.
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