Four hours before the late ES alert was launched focusing the court case on the damage, the emergency units of the Valenciana government already knew that there was Killed in the town of YotelThe situation was tragic due to the floods … The Magro River long before the water and mud storm destroyed the municipalities through which the Puyo Valley passes. The presidency team was also aware of this information 4:28 PM on October 29, 2024. Early in the morning, a truck driver in Alcudia had already lost track.
This was revealed through WhatsApp messages submitted by the then Counselor in Charge of Emergency Situations Salome Pradas, who was investigated along with her former “number two” Emilio Argüeso, to the Cataroga judge who instructed open proceedings for the alleged murders and reckless injuries. Connections whose existence was not known until Pradas pointed them out in a television interview.
“We have been informed of a deceased person in a hotel,” said former advisor to José Manuel Cuenca, chief of staff to current President General Carlos Mazón. The same person who, according to Pradas, asked him not to disturb Mazzone around 2 p.m. To whom he sent the same message that he sent to the President a few minutes later: “Things are getting complicated at Utiel.”. In fact, at three o’clock in the afternoon, it was decided to mobilize the Military Emergency Unit (UME), with people calling for help on the rooftops. Mazzone was already eating at El Ventorro at the time.
At 4:43 p.m., Cuenca – without mentioning the deceased – sent a message to Pradas from “the President”: “At 7pm we go to 112.”. The Integrated Operations Coordination Center (CICOPY), the body that managed the crisis, was meeting there. However, Mazzone extended dinner until about that hour and then accompanied the journalist with whom he had lunch to the parking lot where he parked his car. Maribel Villaplana left the parking lot at 7:48 p.m. The former president did not arrive at the Ileana building until 8:28 p.m., seventeen minutes after the electronic alert was triggered.
PP Barron defended that he had no confirmation of the deaths until midnight, when he indicated this in his media appearance. The document in which the Deputy Director General for Emergency Situations, Jorge Suarez, requested the mobilization of the UME throughout the province, at 8:30 p.m., indicated that there were dead.