The Cecopi (Integrated Operational Coordination Center) confirmed this Monday that the official number of people who died due to the storm alone in the province of València has now reached 211 (to which must be added the three deaths in Castile-La Mancha and one other in the province of Malaga).
This figure has remained practically unchanged in recent days, which, given the scale of the damage, has aroused all kinds of suspicions, even conspiracy theories and hoaxes, about the management of the data proposed by official bodies.
Sources from the Ministry of the Interior explained to elDiario.es that the procedure followed when security forces and agencies locate a body is to go to court to have it removed: “Then it is sent to the institute of forensic medicine where the forensic experts They perform an autopsy to certify the cause of death. Subsequently, an identification is carried out.
Throughout this process, the victim is entered in the register of deceased “once the body has been removed”, so if the numbers remain stable, it is because no new body has been removed.
This also has an explanation. As the government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, and the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, commented on Monday after the Cecopi meeting, the troops are currently focused on “the entrance to the canals and the underground” areas affected by DANA. in the province of Valencia, while “no more victims have been detected on the surface”.
“Now we are in the next phase of entering the canals, ravines, underground, garages, in which the entire army and firefighters are working intensively, precisely to reduce them, and that is where we will be able to possibly change the pace of the intervention, number of victims,” Bernabé said.
