The Central Executive affirms that it was the Generalitat Valenciana which interrupted the meeting of the Integrated Center for Operational Coordination (Cecopi) on October 29 and left more one hour offline to representatives of the Government Delegation, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) and the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) who electronically followed the meeting during the catastrophic DANA which left 220 dead and eight missing.
What was announced around 5:50 p.m. as a short break was extended until around 7:05 p.m., according to sources present at this meeting. During this period, the CHJ sent an email (6:43 p.m.) warning of the monumental flooding of the Rambla del Poyo: the flow had skyrocketed to 1,683 m3/s. A critical time for emergency management, as rivers and ravines were already overflowing. There was then a debate on send a mass alert to the population, who did not arrive until 8:12 p.m.
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, agreed this Thursday emphasizing that “the one who must answer” for the breakdown of Electricity is the executive of Carlos Mazón. , who runs the emergency services.
“The reasons they stopped it, the time it took them to reconnect and resume the meeting need to be explained by whoever told us they were stopping and would let us know when it started again “, said Bernabé.
The affair was revealed this Wednesday by the third vice-president and Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, during her appearance at the Congress of Deputies. “Between six and seven in the afternoon, the screen went black. We do not know what happened during that hour, but the three people who represented the government delegation, Aemet and the Confederation, were not able to participate in this debate which was surely taking place in person at the Cecopi headquarters to decide what was the best way to respond to the opinions, to the information available,” Ribera said.
Upon her arrival at the Cecopi meeting this Thursday, and questioned by journalists, the vice-president and new spokesperson of the Generalitat, Susana Camarero, limited herself to responding that “the one who has been disconnected for 21 days is Minister Teresa Bank. “Here pThey could all have been in personthat’s where they should have been,” he noted.
In a statement sent to the media last Saturday in response to Aemet’s accusations on this subject, the Ministry of Justice and Interior – still led by Salomé Pradas despite the announcement of her resignation – said that Cecopi had been premiered October 29 at 5 p.m. And “nor has been suspended at any time throughout the afternoon and night he managed the rains and floods that were occurring in the province of Valencia.
“As of 6 p.m., CECOPI was managing the situation at the Forata dam. From the Emergencies, the notice was sent to the municipalities affected by the possible rupture of the dam and fluid contact was maintained with the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, analyzing the evolution of the Forata dam and foreseeing the scenarios that could arise” , indicated the Generalitat in its writing.
