Carlos Mazón disdained the decision of the University of Valencia to suspend classes before the arrival of DANAwhich ended up costing the lives of more than 200 people. The president of the Generalitat, however, considered that the measure was exaggerated and this was conveyed to those present in an informal interview during the meeting he held with employers and unions on the same day of the tragedy, according to eyewitnesses cited by ‘elDiario.es‘.
On the eve of the disaster, on Monday October 28, the University announced the suspension of teaching activities on all its campuses due to the weather situation. Already on the morning of Tuesday 29, after AEMET raised the alert to red early in the morning, the institution accepted suspend all teaching, administrative, research and cultural activitieswith the exception of basic support and critical facility maintenance tasks.
This decision, however, did not please the head of the regional Executive, who considered it excessiveas he told his interlocutors during his meeting with representatives of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV), the UGT and the Workers’ Commissions, whom he met from 1:45 p.m. and at which The Minister of Social Services was also present. Equality and Housing and regional manager of the Economy.
Witnesses to this conversation confirm to ‘elDiario.es’ that Mazón was unhappy with the decision to suspend activity university, despite the fact that at that time the AEMET Red Notice and the hydrological alert had already been launched after the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) reported the overflowing of the Poyo ravine at 12:20 p.m.
After this meeting, Mazón remained untraceable for several hours, although he claims that he was informed of what was happening, and he showed up two hours earlier at the CECOPI meeting, which had started at 5 p.m. . Meanwhile, we now know, he was eating with a journalist to offer you the address of the regional channel ‘À Punt’. It was only after 8:10 p.m. that the mass mobile notification of the population. By then it was too late.
