The investigating judge in Dana’s administration refused to open a separate article against the journalist Maribel Villaplana by The crime of perjury In his statement dated November 3. In a car issued on Monday and was able to reach her 20 minutesThe judge rejects the request for one of the special accusations raised in the case, and in turn requested the testimony of the mayors of Cholera and Util “Clarify” conversations Which they kept with him afterward president From Valenciana State, Carlos Mazzone, at 6:28 p.m. Day of the disaster, because his accounts “contradict” what the journalist stated in her testimony.
The presiding officer of position number three of the Court of First Instance of Catarroga noted that the statements of the mayors of Cholera and Utilí – Jordi Mayor (PSPV) and Ricardo Gabaldón (PP), respectively – have already been agreed as testimonies and are awaiting review, so it is not appropriate to demand them again. Furthermore, he asserted that the alleged crime of perjury could only be assessed after the conclusion of the main proceeding, i.e.: When there is a “procedurally proven fact”as stated in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court.
Villaplana came to testify as a witness in the criminal case opened for disaster management on Monday of last week, where on October 29, 2024 he shared a meal with Mazzone at the El Ventorro restaurant in Valencia that lasted from 3:00 p.m. until 6:45 p.m. This meal made the then Speaker of the Council arrive with him He was more than two hours late for a Sekopi meetingWhich started at 5:00 pm.
According to what the journalist witnessed, the food contained… Professional character Which dealt with his possible integration into the General Office in Valencia PuntAn offer I ultimately rejected. Likewise, Villaplana reported that Mazzone “was answering his cell phone, talking and also typing,” and that At no time did he notice the “hurry” in himI didn’t hear him mention “neither Dana nor Sekopi nor the rain.”
At the end of the meal, now president At the service, he accompanied the journalist to the parking lot where she left her car, about 350 meters from El Ventoro. They said goodbye around 6:45 p.m.when the flood had already caused the first deaths, with a conversation – according to Villaplana – about “football”. In this sense, the judge asked the parking company to provide the approved ticket At any time he came and went Provider’s car from the conference venue. Villaplana herself was initially asked to provide the document on the day of her statement, but the spokeswoman explained that she did not have it.
And so Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, who is in charge of the investigation, is now trying to do just that Reconstructing the sequence of previous decisions ES alert was sent due to floods that left 229 deaths in the community. In this sense, the examining magistrate of the DANA administration has scheduled next Friday, November 21, the witness statements of the owner of El Ventorro, and the Secretary General of the Valencian Party, Juan Francisco Pérez Jurca, one of the names being heard among the possible replacements for the acting President of the Council now.
Ambrosio, the building’s owner, will appear in Cattaruga Court at 9:30 a.m., while Perez Yurca will appear two hours later, at 11:30 a.m., also in Room 1 of the courthouse. Both were arraigned on Wednesday by a judge With five other Mazón collaborators: Regional Secretary of the Presidency, Caetano Garcia; Regional Secretary of the President’s Office and Communications, José Manuel Cuenca; General Director of Corporate Communications and Promotion, Francisco Gonzalez; Director General of the Presidential Press Office Maite Gomez and Counselor Josep Lanuza.
Their appearance is part of a round of testimony promoted by the judge investigating flood management Reconstruction of previous hours At the beginning of an emergency. Thus, Ruiz Tubarra justifies the summoning of senior officials by appearing in the list of calls made that afternoon by the investigated former chancellor Salome Pradas “in order to clarify the process of deliberations that followed the Secopi meeting.”
As for the owner of the venturo, the judge depends on that Maribel Villaplana confirmed during her testimony that “she was the only person who came in and out of the room they were in.” And he even gave some papers back then president To sign. “Given the possibility that the aforementioned person overheard the conversation” between Mazzone and Prada, “it is necessary to find out the identity of the owner and call him as a witness,” the judge explained.
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