The judge of Catarroja (Valencia), who is investigating the case for the administration of the Dana, which claimed 230 lives, asks the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Generalitat to indicate whether, on October 29, 2024, senior officials of the regional government were interested in “any legal assessment, intervention or opinion regarding the measures to be taken” in the face of the emergency.
This emerges from one of the orders issued this Monday by the judge, in which, in response to written submissions submitted in the context of the allegations made by Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV) and Compromís, she orders that the General Directorate of the Attorney General’s Office of the Generalitat Valenciana is obliged to report on “the oral or written consultations carried out by high-ranking officials of the then Ministry of Justice and the Interior or the Ministry of the Environment.” Presidency” stating its “object” and “the answers given”.
Likewise, the trainer requests that the same body report whether the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Generalitat was summoned on October 29 by the then Regional Secretary of the Presidency of the Generalitat, Cayetano García, to give “any legal assessment, intervention or opinion regarding the measures to be taken in relation to the Dana episodes of the same day”.
CALLS TRANSFERRED TO EUSKADI
In the other resolution, also presented by the Supreme Court of the Autonomous Community of Valencia (TSJCV), it agrees, at the request of ACPV, to request the Directorate of Emergency Assistance and Meteorology (DAEM) of the Basque Government to provide a report on the calls received on the telephone number 112 in Euskadi by transfer from 112 Comunitat Valenciana on the day of the ravine, as well as the preservation of the records of these calls for their future inclusion in the procedure, prior consent of the people involved.
In this decision, the investigating judge rejects further proceedings requested by this party in connection with a telephone call and a WhatsApp message between the Lehendakari and the then President of the Generalitat Valenciana, since these contacts – she explains – “occurred outside the temporal moment in which decisions had to be taken to protect the population”.
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