The Valencian Minister of the Interior and Justice, Salomé Pradas, is entangled in a lie to justify her poor management before DANA. Pradas assures that it was at eight o’clock in the afternoon on the day of the tragedy that he was informed of imminent danger and that there was an audible alert system for the population.
“At eight o’clock in the afternoon, I received a call from the Secretary of State for Ecological Transition. That’s when a technician informed us that there was a mechanism called ES Alert” , he assured the media. And that’s the lie. Almost an hour before what she says, at seven fifteen, she participates in a crisis meeting during which they explain to her in detail how this alarm works.
In this conversation, the Minister of Justice and the Interior begins by ensuring that is aware that “the situation of chaos is already occurring in many municipalities” by DANA. At that point, the technician explains to him and to Bernabé the procedure he wishes to begin.
“It’s important that we are as redundant as possible. You must send the message immediately, you will also talk to In Puntpublic television to get this message across. It will also be broadcast via traditional stations, analog stations… Obviously when the coverage returns or a person who is in transit and passes through these municipalities will immediately receive the message because you can define a cadence period for these messages, you can say that for an hour, everyone who enters and exits the area receives it, so we will look for that redundancy,” they said. explains the technician.
After that, the government delegate asks if there is evidence that all the municipalities were already without electricity, at which point another voice reports that They find out thanks to information provided by the mayors themselves localities. An audio which accompanies this information and which shows that the authorities were already aware of the seriousness of DANA an hour before sending the alert.
Furthermore, according to sources of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcarduring this same meeting, His representative proposed to launch the sound alert due to the imminent danger in the Poyo ravine.
The minister tried to deny that she was unaware of the alert system and, in her explanation, claims that it is a protocol currently being tested. “It is not regulated, it is not in our regional plans, it is still a project,” he explains.
The reality is that The implementation of the ES Alert system was presented two years ago by the previous Generalitat and has been operational since January last year.. SO, If it’s not a lie, it could be incompetence. because the person responsible for security is unaware of the existence of an essential tool.
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