The Department of Emergencies directed by Juan Carlos Valderrama has sent the judge that instructs the criminal case on the management of the DANA The full transcription of the calls between technicians of the Valencian Agency for Security and Response to Emergencies (AVSRE) and personnel of the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) between October 28 and 29, identifying the first names and surname.
Among the calls is the one that leaked manipulated and spread on his social networks the president of the Valencian Government, Carlos Mazón, at 12.04 on October 29. Audio manipulation tried to falsely imply that there had been a bad prediction of the organism.
The filtration of this audio on February 12 gave rise to a complaint by Aemet itself before the Prosecutor's Office, which is why the head of the Court of Instruction number 6 of Llíria has opened previous proceedings. In her order of initiation of investigation, the judge considers that an alleged crime of revelation of secrets could have been committed by individual and commission the group of technological crimes of the Civil Guard that investigates “the person or people” who accessed the recording of the conversation between a predictor of the AEMET and a technique of the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat.
It is important to note that Aemet could not be the full audio filtering, since it does not record the calls and that it is 112 of the Generalitat Valenciana the institution in charge of registering the conversations and which must guard its content, as established by law.
At the beginning of last September, the General Emergency Deputy Directorate of the Generalitat Valenciana delivered in the Catarroja Court that investigates the cause of the DANA a report in which the content of this call was omitted, which led to the reproach of the judge, who in a resolution of September 10 agreed that testimony of the proceedings open in the court Audio and asked the Emergency Coordination Center to identify the officials who asked the AEMET to adjust the prediction “in a very short term in a basin or area of which it would be necessary to know its evolution”.
In response to this request, Emergencies has sent to the magistrate the full transcription of all calls between technicians of the Valencian Security Agency and response to emergencies and Aemet personnel between October 28 and 29, identifying the first names and surnames with names and surnames, including the one that was manipulated and filtered interested, which has given rise to another judicial investigation.
The complete conversation
The call occurred at 12.04 on October 29 and in it the meteorologist moves to the emergency technique that “at 3 pm the worst will begin”, that the storm was going to displace “inside the north of Valencia”, to which the employee of the autonomic administration responds: “Now we also have the consequences of the rains with all the flows”.
During the conversation, the Aemet worker comments with the emergency in the first place that they were having problems with communications: “Let's see, tell me, you have been calling me, right? It is that the audio was not going, you did not listen to me,” says the emergency technique, to which the meteorologist who had already told them that they were trying to contact Aemet “and did not enter the calls.” From emergencies they recognized that they were having “problems right now with telephone communications.”
Then, from Aemet he moves: “Let's see, in principle, we are not going to dizzy with more notices. Those in the morning have been confirmed, but we have not made changes. I think it is something maritime, because if not, I would not have let me confirm the morning, it is worth? together.
The meteorologist informs after “the city of Valencia seems that it will not happen, or even the airport.” From emergencies they ask him about a time slot in which the storm will be worse, for example from 15 hours to 18 hours, to which from Aemet they answer: “At 15 hours in the afternoon the worst will begin as until 6:00 p.m. (…) It seems that the part of the southern coast has already calmed down.
The ES-Alert, ready in August 2024
Emergencies of the Generalitat has also referred to the judge to instruct the criminal case on the management of the DANA The circulars on flood prevention of August 2024 and 2025, where it is confirmed, in the first, that two months before the catastrophe, the use of the mass alert system to the Mobile Es-Alert was already contemplated.
In the 2024 it was indicated that the Emergency Coordination Center of the Generalitat (CCE) had updated the operation for the flood campaign of that year, in which it assured that the contact protocol had been reviewed with the AEMET prediction service for the adjustment of the pre -emergencies that derive from the weather forecast of rain, storms and state of the sea.
It also indicated that communication with the Hydrographic Confederations of Júcar, Safe and Ebro was “permanently” in relation to the monitoring of flows and the process that leads to the declaration of an emergency situation, and that the CCE transmitted the emergency activation notices and data of scope to the municipal officials when the notices were activated.
As for ES-Alert, it was announced in that circular: “From this year the alert system is active (it is alert) through the national alert network, which allows the sending of messages to the mobile phones of those situations of special gravity and that imply actions by the receiving persons.”
He added that it is “a broad scope system and that it is completed with the application notices1 · 1 · 2 CV that informs of the current pre -emergencies and emergencies and its evolution: its discharge is recommended on the mobile phone of the latter”.