València (EFE) .- The accusation that the Cultural Acció of the Valencià country exercises in the judicial case opened by the management of the DANA has asked the instructor judge to quote as a witness the former press chief of the former Conssellera de Justicia and Interior Salome Pradas to ask him for a press release issued on the eve of the floods.
The aforementioned press release was entitled “Emergencies informs of the reactivation of heavy rains and asks that preventive measures be adopted to possible floods”, with this subtitle: “The Emergency Coordination Center issues a special notice in which it recommends the monitoring of the episode of rainfall to municipalities and organisms with emergencies in emergencies.”
The lawyer of Cultural Acció, Manolo Mata, exposes the judge in his brief, to which Efe has had access, that this information from the Generalitat was the germ of other journalistic information about “the concern, fear and fear of overflowing Ramblas and ravines with danger to the population.”
Notice of the activation of the river basins
This press release released on October 28 by the Generalitat textually stated: “The Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat informs that as a consequence of these phenomena the activation of river and ravines basins could occur, and local floods occur due to accumulated in areas of high urban occupation.”
-In addition to warning of rains that could reach 150 liters per square meter, this information recommended to “municipalities and organizations with competences in emergencies that maintain the necessary attention and monitor areas ».
In the opinion of this lawyer, “it is evident that the Generalitat Valenciana, at its highest levels, knew in a reliable way, more than thirty hours before the deaths that are investigated, the certain risk of floods in Barrancos and Ramblas, the consequences that could be derived for the lives and integrity of the people.”
“He knew exactly the preventive actions to be carried out much in advance of his concurrence, the viability of the legally established actions to warn, indicate and collaborate in the protection of people who could be affected before a hypothetical but very likely flood,” according to Mata.
And that is why he claims that the then press advisor to the Ministry of Justice and Interior be cited as a witness who coordinated the tasks of writing that press release of October 28, 2024.
