Judge Dana arrested HazteOir, an ultra-conservative association, which is one of the accusations in the case and which requested that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, be summoned as a witness, hiding behind the WhatsApp messages that he exchanged with Carlos Mazón on the night of October 29, 2024, a tragic day that left 230 people dead. HazteOir presented this request immediately after the investigating judge agreed to call as a witness Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who said that Mazón had kept him informed of the disaster in “real time”, even the day before the dana.
However, the magistrate maintains in an order issued this Monday that “this is a simple speculation, which cannot be supported by a parallelism, nor as a response to the previous declaration of her political opponent, agreed on December 12, 2025, (the request is formulated the next day), a speculation which cannot support the practice of testimonial diligence nor the offer to provide messages or communications”.
He also recalls that responsibility for emergency management is “attributed exclusively to the Generalitat Valenciana”. Sánchez’s testimony offered by HazteOir is, in the instructor’s opinion, “clearly inappropriate.”
“The assertion that communications and messages could have been exchanged between the President of the Government and the President of the Generalitat is based on simple conjectures of said representation, without any support, which do not justify testimony,” specifies the order.
The ultraconservative association referred to a message from Pedro Sánchez to Carlos Mazón sent at 10:50 p.m. “on his return from India, where he had made an official visit of a few days.”
However, the resolution assures, the moment when the exchange of the message takes place “radically deviates from the moment when the decision-making process took place” within the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi).
“Ultimately, these elements of evidence would constitute a possible analysis of what happened a posteriori, at a time subsequent to what constitutes the subject of the investigation,” adds the judge. Furthermore, the judge recalls that “there is no proof” that Sánchez, “unlike” Núñez Feijóo, “was informed in real time” by Mazón, “so the hypothesis is clearly different”.
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