All eyes were on José Manuel Cuenca, his right-hand man and chief of staff at the time president Valencia Carlos Mazzone during Dana. On Monday afternoon, Cuenca joined the congressional inquiry into the management of the crisis caused by the October 29, 2024 floods, just one day after the October 29, 2024 floods. Former advisor Justice and Interior Minister Salome Pradas revealed in a television interview that he ordered her after 1pm not to disturb Mazzone that day. I disobeyed and phoned president At 4:29 p.m., he canceled the call. He did not return it until 5:37 p.m., when the siege began and at least 22 people were killed, according to an investigation by this newspaper. On that day at least 229 citizens of Valencia died from dana.
Cuenca, who had already been summoned to testify before Judge Nuria Ruiz Tubara of Cataruja who is investigating the Dana case, was responsible for keeping Mazzone on that day’s agenda, especially the meal with journalist Maribel Villaplana at the El Ventoro restaurant, which lasted until 6:45 p.m. Pradas also spoke three other times with Mazzone during that period, but from 6:30 p.m. to 7:43 p.m. He did not answer him because, according to Mazzone, he had his cell phone inside his backpack and could not hear him. By the time he did so, the decision to send the electronic alert had already been made. The alert came at 8:11 p.m., when at least 155 people had died and another 37 people were in critical condition.
Of the 105 calls recorded by the former advisor, only 12 were with the former advisor at the time president. He canceled four – three in the worst hours of the day – and turned up two and the rest happened in the last hour before arriving in Sekopi. With Cuenca scoring seven that day, two of them were cancelled. However, Pradas stated during the interview on Sunday on La Sexta that messages had been exchanged with the Mazzone team with the aim of keeping it informed of the consequences of the damages, the critical situation of the Vorata Dam or the mass transmission of ES-Alert to mobile phones.
He was one of the senior Valencian government officials who appeared before the congressional committee on Monday advisor Education, culture, universities and profession in the state of Valenciana, José Antonio Rovira Jover. The person in charge of education in the Valencian Community shied away from his responsibilities and maintained that he had left to eat in Alicante that day because the government delegate had insisted that morning that the storm would improve after 6:00 p.m.
The fact is that Bernabe, according to the documents contained in the summary of the case, first called Radas at 12:23 to offer him assistance from UME, given the intensity of the rain and Aemet’s warnings. He’s done it again two more times, since Former advisor He refused help. However, Rovira insisted on the lack of information necessary for action, despite the fact that early in the morning of the 29th, no less than 17 city councils had suspended classes, as had the Valencia Polytechnic, due to the risk of road flooding.