The mayor of Massanassa (Valencia), Paco comeshe assured, about the collapse this Sunday from a porch of the Lluís Vives school in which an operator died, whose The town hall “neither did he contract with Tragsa neither one nor the other is he responsible at this moment of what happened.
In statements to the media, he provided more details about this event: “We are informed, initially, that they will come architects of the Department of Education to assess the damage and it is these technicians who make the reports to see if the work that needs to be done in the schools and if they are of a greater magnitude or less.
At that time, he clarified that there are two educational centers – CEIP Lluís Vives and Ausiàs March – classified at the “red” level and, therefore, the student body has been transferred in Valencia and Alcasser. However, at the IES in Massanassa courses are already being held and even a training course in Catarroja is being organized, because this institute “only required electrical power work”. “All this work is carried out, I repeat, by the ministry, which is ultimately responsible for the educational centers,” he stressed.
Paco Comes stressed that the City Hall “does not prepare technical reports, because this is not its responsibility” and indicated that it published a statement on November 7 urging the population not to enter the school. “But not because we had a report what we would have done or whether we knew the infrastructure was bad or not. This is what Department“, he clarified.
Concretely, that day, on the town hall’s social networks, the warning was made public: “It is forbidden to all populationas a precautionary measure, the entrance At schools Lluís Vives and Ausiàs March, warned of possible demolition.
Likewise, he explained that “obviously, school is a center what will we have to do neweven if it has nothing to do with the red level. “The red level is because courses cannot be taught there. “That’s why they (the students), right now, are being relocated.”
The mayor added that “the final report which will say whether the school, with certainty, will have to be built again, will arrive”. “Therefore, we as a city council have no certificates, no reports drawn up by us or anything, because we are not obliged to do so.”
Asked whether he was informed that work would be carried out in the school where the accident occurred, the first mayor reaffirmed that about two weeks ago, the Department “reported that they were starting to work on an initial assessment of the damage caused to each school throughout the area affected by DANA “They tell me that they will have to assess the damage, but it depends on the ministry, and then they enter into a work contract with them. Tragsa; This is a subject that we do not don’t know.”
Indeed, he stressed that this work is not coordinated within Cecopal. Asked about the minister’s statements that professionals carried out security work cleaning “in the outer part” of the center “at the request of the Town Hall” of the commune, which, due to “the proximity of certain homes”, Comes replied: “I cannot assure you, because, in The end, we “We spent the last three weeks of our lives asking for things.”
“The Town Hall has not even contracted with Tragsa he is also not responsible for what happened,” insisted the municipal official, who once again “deeply” regretted the misfortune of the deceased worker.
“We know (the school) is bad, we tell people not to go in and we signal the local police and we ask the ministry to put up fences… We have to say it to prevent, but we we don’t have it. “There is this structure, because it is not us who have to do it,” he reiterated.
“I think we saved lives”
At this point he recalled that on the day of DANA he issued a statement suspending all activities: “There were no children in the sports center or in any other activities carried out daily. “We did it because we thought we had to and I think we saved lives.”
The first mayor asked us to await the conclusions of the ongoing medical-judicial investigation into the circumstances of the accident.
Regarding the relocation of students, he indicated that he understands that children must complete the course in other centers if necessary, but he indicated that he offered certain points to be able to settle. prefabricated classrooms that they have the quality conditions so that the courses are delivered “optimally”.
