The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, requested the army incorporationas well as available land, sea and air troops, to reinforce logistics and aid distribution tasks to municipalities affected by DANA in the province of Valencia.
The Military Emergency Unit has already communicated that this Friday at 8 a.m. a first wave will join work during the day.
“After an interview with the President of the Government, to improve operational coordination within the control body in place since Monday, as well as the incorporation of the army, we decided that he will join the CECOPI team of 112 people at the highest level. level of government. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska permanently,” Mazón said in X.
THE @UMEgob He tells me that tomorrow at 8 a.m. a first wave will start working during the day.
– Carlos Mazón (@carlos_mazon_) October 31, 2024
In this devastating context, the Valencia public prosecutor’s office announced that it was requesting the preventive detention of all those arrested – 39 this Wednesday, according to the national police – for thefts committed in the zero zone of the storm.
In this regard, the president of the Court of Instruction number 3 of Torrent, acting as guardian, decreed this Thursday afternoon the entry into provisional prison, communicated and without bail of four men arrested for allegedly looting stores in a shopping center in the town of Aldaia last Tuesday night, when the area was hit by Dana, which caused dozens of deaths in the province of Valencia.
The instructor made this decision at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, after receiving the statements of the arrested persons by videoconference, in telematic connection with the Valencia City Hall of Justice, where they had been transferred by the security forces due to the impossibility of taking them. at the courthouse due to the effects of flooding.
The four people involved were arrested by the Civil Guard after being surprised in the vicinity of the shopping center with items that they had just stolen from several businesses, such as sports equipment, cell phones and a video game console, among others. others.
The judge indirectly attributes to the persons indicted, without prejudice to any other qualification, the aggravated offense of theft with violence in an establishment open to the public for the commission of which an accident was exploited or “the existence of a risk or ‘a general danger’. for the community what happened. weakened the defense of the offended party or facilitated the unpunished commission of the crime“.
The judge considers that the detainees were able to take advantage of the impunity offered by the fact that the security forces were attentive to the emergency situation generated by DANA to commit the theft.
