Judge Dana, in an order issued this Monday, asks the General Directorate of Emergency Assistance and Meteorology of the Basque Government to provide a report on the calls received at 112 Euskadi by reference from 112 Comunitat Valenciana, “providing the definition of the cases kept” in its CoordCom, the computer system that records communications from the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat to Eliana.
Furthermore, it also requires the retention of call recordings “in the event that their content is included in the file, with the prior agreement of the persons concerned”.
This is a procedure requested by the Popular Prosecutor’s Office in the Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV) case, following the call list of October 29, 2024 made public by Carlos Mazón, which includes two communications (at 11:11 p.m. and 11:29 p.m.) with the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales.
Wahatsapps contributed to the cause by general director Pilar Montes also reported that the lehendakari was trying, on that tragic day, which left 230 people dead, to contact then-president Carlos Mazón. The document, included in the procedure, includes Pradales’ cell phone number.
The ACPV requested that a report be requested from the Lehendakaritza of the Basque Government on the hours during which attempts were made to contact Mazón (or with one of the two people investigated in the case, the former councilor Salomé Pradas and the former regional secretary of Emergencies, Emilio Argüeso), “specifying the channels used for this purpose, specifying the exact hours during which they could be contacted, exposing the reasons that led them to do so and specifying where they obtained the information from the one who derived the offer.
He also requested that the Security Department of the Basque Government be required to provide a report on the “material and personal means made available to the Generalitat Valenciana” on the morning of October 30, 2024, the day after the disaster, “specifying the date on which they were used and the reasons why their use was delayed as well as the date on which the collaboration ended”.
However, the magistrate denied the prosecution requested by the popular prosecution. The order recalls that the calls between Mazón and Pradales took place late on October 29, “precisely outside the time frame in which decisions had to be taken to safeguard the population” during the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi).
The “will expressed by the Lehendakari” to provide resources to help the population is also excluded from the interest of the case investigated by Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, who limits the investigation into the events to the delay in Cecopi’s decision to take action in the face of the disaster.
“Such means and actions of solidarity on the part of the said Autonomous Community would aim to mitigate the very serious consequences of dana, in all areas,” recalls the resolution. However, he adds, “they could no longer, due to the distance and the moment when their action began, have an impact to avoid the fatal and harmful consequences which are the subject of the investigation.”
The judge recalls that the “delay in activating the means” to help people affected by the dana in the following days, once the events occurred, “is a question which corresponds to its analysis in other areas, to the political (within the parliamentarian), to the administrative, but it cannot be the subject of this process”, she concludes.
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