“Once again, Salomé Pradas is again lying about my 290th role. And again, I will not need to deny it: the head of the emergency service did it while appearing before the judge.” With this message, which spread through social networks, the government delegate to the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabe, responded to the statements of the former Valencian Minister of Emergency during Dana, Salomé Pradas, which were broadcast on the program “Salvados” this Sunday.
Bernabei recalled the words of Inmaculada Biles, head of service at the Emergency Coordination Centre, before the Cataroga judge investigating the case of the death of 229 people in the province of Valencia on October 29, 2024. Biles said that Bernabei submitted a report after the first recess on the situation in Bayporta and confirmed that the person in charge of civil protection in the government delegation asked him at 6:35 p.m. He sent an ES-Alert message, a message sent at 8:11 p.m.
But this is not the only denial made by Barnabas. The government delegate recalls that if Carlos Mazzone’s former advisor had called Cecopi the first time she presented him with the UME, at around 12:20 p.m., the emergency level at that moment would have been raised to 2, and “he would have been much better prepared.”
Likewise, she states that she was not a “co-director” of emergencies and that this is something that PP and Vox “invent and repeat all the time”; “It’s really boring, but it’s always worth explaining,” he says.