In recent hours, attention on the management of DANA in the Valencian Community has been focused on the Minister of Justice and Interior of the Generalitat Valenciana, Salomé Pradas, in charge of emergencies. And each new detail revealed is more inexplicable than the last.
To put things in context: Pradas appeared this Thursday on Valencian public television stating that she was only aware of the existence of the mobile alert system at 8 p.m. on the Tuesday afternoon of the floods; Later, audio to which the SER had access denied this version. Pradas was again denied this Thursday: although the Mazón advisor denied that the Government delegate had offered him help from the UME in the morning of DANA, RTVE recorded her saying it to his team , and yesterday released the images revealed by Salomé Pradas.
Today, other moments that put Pradas in a bind are being picked up on social media. For example, this tweet that the current advisor wrote just three years ago, in which Pradas demanded the resignation of Mireia Mollà, then Minister of Agriculture in the government of Ximo Puig, due to “the macabre event of the death of 10 donkeys under the leadership” of Puig, wrote Pradas in October 2021.
Not content with asking for Mollà’s resignation, Salomé Pradas returned to the fray the next day on Twitter, after the resignation of the director general of the Milieu naturel at the time due to the death of the animals. “This is absurd,” Pradas said on social media. “The advisor who is his boss is holding on to this position because she says she didn’t discover anything. Mollà must resign as the main person responsible for this macabre event, otherwise Puig must fire her,” he said.
Indeed, the resignation of Benjamín Pérez, senior official of Compromís and then director general of the Natural Environment of the Valencian Governmentwas caused by the death of these ten donkeys as part of a pilot fire prevention program. At that time, the Ministry of Agriculture opened an information file to clarify the death of 10 of the 50 donkeys introduced into the Palm Desert Natural Park of Castellón to help prevent fires.
The plan was to use the animals to eliminate the remains of vegetation and contribute to the clearing of forests using species from the environment. A few months later, the public prosecutor’s office noted abuses and transferred to court the death of the donkeys in the Palm Desert in Castellón after observing that there could be a crime of mistreatment of animals attributable to the director of the natural park, Antonio Garcia.
