The Minister of Justice of the Valencian Community and Emergency manager, Salomé Pradasrecognized this Thursday that He discovered that mobile alerts existed at 8:00 p.m. on the afternoon of October 29., minutes before sending them (8:12 p.m.) to all telephone numbers in the province of Valencia by DANA.
In a statement to À Punt, Pradas said that at 8 p.m. in the afternoon he received “a call from the Minister of State for Ecological Transition.” [Teresa] Ribera.” “That’s when he tells me that he is in Colombia, that he discovers the situation, and he tells me that he cannot guarantee that don’t break the dam [de Forata]”, and there, he continues, a technician informs him of these alerts.
Subsequently, he assured that “it is at that moment that a technician informs them [de] which exists a mechanism called ES-Alertwhich is not regulated at the moment.” The councilor said they told her it was not in their “standalone plans, which is still a project that is being approved at the Protection Committee Civil.”
“That’s when they give us this informationI insist, the only verbal ones concerning at the Forata dam, when we decided to activate ES-Alert, a unanimous decision from Cecopi and advised by technicians“, he added.
These statements come as this Wednesday we learn that the government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé called the Minister of Justice three times this morning Offering means facing DANA’s risk without it responding to this offer.
The head of the Interior called Cecopi at 5 p.m. After 7:00 p.m., the mayor of Paiporta, the municipality with the highest number of deaths, alerted Bernabé that the municipality was flooded. And after 8:00 p.m., it was decided to activate the Es-Alert mechanism for the population.
This Thursday, Barnabas was energetic: “Everyone knows the responsibility they have and what they had on the 29th.“This is what the government delegate said in an appearance after the Cecopi celebration, while Padras assures that Bernabé is the one who had the “data” and “information”, but he said: ” We have not passed on any information she may have.” nor did he communicate “alarming information”.
