The Catarroja Judgewhich instructs the criminal case on the DANA on October 29, has required new information to the Emergency Coordination Center and the Valencian Agency for Safety and Response in Emergencies to know if it sent the corresponding ones notices to all those municipalities at risk of floods To take control measures on the rivers channels and other measures, as well as knowing how many municipalities the Municipal Operational Coordination Center (Cecopal) constituted.
He has also requested data related to rescue services and rescue of people made with air rescue helicopters by forest firefighters of the Generalitat during October 29.
On the other hand, he has agreed to mention as Witness to the Chief of Cabinet of Salome Pradasformer council of justice and interior of the Generalitat Valenciana and one of the two people charged in the case.
This has been stated by the judge through two cars and an management diligence with those who have been notified each of the parties by the Court of First Instance and Instruction 3 of Catarroja, within the framework of the Criminal Investigation of the DANA, which have been disclosed by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.
Ask if he warned the municipalities at risk
Specifically, instructor Nuria Ruiz Tobarra wants to know if they were referred from the emergency center “The corresponding notices“To all municipalities with a municipal risk plan to control the rivers channels, as well as had to do in compliance with the Special Plan for the Risk of Flood and given the pre -emergence situation declared on October 28.
Along the same lines, he wants to know How many municipalities constituted the Municipal Operational Coordination Center and if they were required to do so. To this respect, the union argues that only two municipalities, that of Algemesí and that of Valencia. In addition, he has requested the return data provided by these to the emergency center.
Together with this information, he has claimed the Emergency situation monitoring report That this coordination center should elaborate, according to the protocol of the Special Plan in the face of the risk of floods, and what rounds were done with the collaborating agencies and services to know the scope of the situation.
Bernabé was not informed of the overflows
The Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabéhe declared before the judge that the president of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ) He did not inform him that day about the overflows of the channels and ravines, but had to find out through The media.
This was stated in his statement as a witness on April 14, when he admitted that Miguel Polo, President of La Chjhe did not communicate anything about the overflow of the Magro River on the morning of October 29. On the contrary, He spoke with him once he knew through the press that the river had overwhelmedalthough he does not remember if he reproached him for the lack of direct information.
In this regard, Bernabé explained to the prosecutor that no one from the management of the emergency either required an extraordinary request for information to the CHJ On the situation of the Poyo Barranco: “Even seeing the pluviometry and flowmeter data of the Poyo ravine, there was no talk about this. Fundamentally there was talk about the Forata dam.”
New requests to the Emergency Center
Likewise, the magistrate has asked the Emergency Center Information on whether Specific action procedures with the actions of the different organs that make up the Cecopi. He has also requested whether or not these protocols established the coordination guidelines on the demands of services for the municipalities and calls made at 112.
In addition, Ruiz has raised If the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) was requested from Adjust the very short -term prediction in a basin or area of which it would be necessary to know the evolution, and when the risk monitoring group were constituted, the media and resources management group and the information cabinet Within the Cecopi, as required by the special plan in the risk of floods.
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