On the day of the tragedy, when hundreds of people were already trapped by the DANA floods, Carlos Mazón was eating in a famous restaurant in the center of Valencia, specializing in chops. Yesterday Thursday, sources from the Valencian Generalitat informed elDiario.es that in the afternoon of DANA, last October 29, President Carlos Mazón “was working at the Palau de la Generalitat and was quickly informed of what was happening at Cecopi between 5 p.m. and 5 p.m. :00 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. However, as reported today by El País and El Confidencial, Mazón was actually at the restaurant until after 6 p.m. At that time, large areas of Utiel and Requena were already flooded.
This Thursday, at the entrance to Cecopi (L’Eliana Emergency Center), the president declared that he was having “a working lunch” and that he was in permanent contact with the organization. “I was personally in constant contact with everything that was happening,” he said. This lunch “worked,” Mazón said with a straight face. This is a new version change.
elDiario.es had previously consulted its team, which at no time denied the private nature of Mazón’s agape. The Presidency of the Generalitat then emphasized that the head of the Consell “worked and was informed punctually” of what was happening in Cecopi.
“The president was at the Palau de la Generalitat, working and informed punctually and it was when he was informed of the risk of rupture of the Forata dam that he physically and immediately joined the Cecopi meeting,” his team said , who, when asked previously about the private meal, he included it in his personal life, like that of any other citizen.
The President of the Generalitat still does not indicate with whom he ate or what issues were discussed during this meeting. The meal took place after the advisor had already summoned emergency services. Sources consulted by elDiario.es claim that he arrived at the meeting at 7:30 p.m. and that “the topics and information of the meeting” had to be explained to him, which slowed down decision-making. There are five hours during which we do not know exactly where the president is. DANA cost the lives of 215 people in Valencia. The mass mobile alert was not sent until 8:12 p.m.
