The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, recognized that he was “an error” delete a video of the social network the new situation of DANA.
As the regional leader explained during his appearance in the Valencian Parliament to report on the management of the floods which, on October 29, devastated more than 60 villages and cost the lives of 216 people, the forecasts received from the Aémet They indicated that the red alert was marked until six in the afternoon, so he assured that “the worst of the DANA He was heading towards the mountains of Cuenca“.
After obtaining information that the opposite was happening, after posting a video on social networks warning of the situation, Mazón’s communications team deleted the video considering that the information had become obsolete , which she recognized this Friday as “a mistake”.
Mazón justifies having said that the worst was going to happen around 6 p.m. “because was the information that was available“. “I kept my diary perfectly informed of the situation, the resources were on alert, the summons had been sent (…) however, I went to the CECOPI meeting”, he underlined.
At the same time, the leader of the Consell stressed that his arrival at CECOPI was delayed due to the high density of traffic when he was heading by car to the town of Eliana, but that his presence was in no way delayed arrival work from current operation to emergency center. “They didn’t have to explain anything to me“, he clarified.
