Valencia, December 12 (EFE). – The former chief of staff of the former president of the Generalitat Valenciana Carlos Mazón, José Manuel Cuenca, explained this Friday before the judge investigating the criminal case for the administration of the Dana, which had not transmitted to the president the information given to him by the then councilor Salomé Pradas about the death of a person in Utiel (Valencia) at 4:28 p.m. on October 29th.
As EFE has learned from sources involved in the case, Cuenca responded to the prosecutor’s office saying that she did not forward this information to Mazón because she usually waits for an official confirmation from the government delegation and that she did not see any “officiality” in the message sent by Pradas “They inform us about a deceased person in Utiel.”
He has assured that the information he conveyed to the President after this message was that the situation in Utiel was becoming more and more complicated (Pradas had written to Mazón at 2:11 p.m. with the same message) and that he should go to that municipality.
The prosecutor pointed out that a few minutes after the news of the death of a person in Utiel, Cuenca forwarded a message from Mazón to Pradas at 4:43 p.m. in which he said: “At 7 p.m. we go to 112.”
According to the State Ministry, this message is no longer transmitted to Utiel but to the Emergency Coordination Center (112) and Cuenca has assured on this point that it is Mazón who says it and not him, who cannot know why he says it, although in his opinion the normal thing is that he and the city council would join forces to go to Utiel together when the storm subsides.
In his interrogation, the prosecutor assured that reading the messages that Cuenca had with Pradas gave the impression that Mazón’s chief of staff had been an advisor to Pradas in difficult times, something the former denied and later explained that he did not know if Pradas had communicated with anyone else, nor why he had chosen him to convey the news of the emergency. EFE
(Photo) (Video) (Audio)
About The Author
