Message for those who ask that technicians be listened to rather than politicians: “As soon as the Generalitat Valenciana gave us the green light, in a few minutes we were in the emergency zone. We were one of the few services able to enter the Utiel-Requena area. Who directs the emergency and who decides where we go or not is the autonomous community. As soon as the green light came, 1,000 soldiers moved all night so that at dawn that day the Valencians would see that we were there. I can have 1,000 troops at the emergency gate, but I can’t go in until the emergency director clears me. “We cannot add chaos to a situation that is chaotic. »
The speaker is the head of the Military Emergency Unit, General Francisco Javier Marcos, who detailed this Monday the military system put in place after the Valencia tragedy and indicated that he had mobilized his men in a preventive manner taking into account the weather forecast, while waiting to receive orders from the Generalitat of Valencia. He thus underlined the words of Mazón a few hours before, in a strategic turning point, he went on the offensive and charged the Sánchez government with defending the actions of the Generalitat the day Dana was unleashed and his government sent the first alert to the population. 12 hours after the first alert from AEMET, when the floods had already caused a few deaths.
