The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, had no intention of appearing to the key meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi) on the day of the Dana. “He is not a member of the Cecopi,” they have reiterated since their team on different occasions, although it finally appeared to the already famous 20.28 and was directing the same days after the catastrophe.
What happened on October 29 at 19.34 so that a mazón who had been food with a journalist almost four hours and that the entire afternoon agenda had been released and the night ended up being questioned?
The call of his regional secretary of Infrastructure, Javier Sendra, warning him that the Poyo ravine had overflowed and was destroying the Railway Command position of the Generalitat, from where all the meters that go from Valencia to L'Horta Sud are controlled.
Javier Sendra was at 19.34 in person at the FGV command center and had to spend the night with two general directors and the staff who was working that day. About 19.30 the flood overflowed the channel of the Poyo ravine and a large wave entered strongly into the building that was totally shattered. The people who were in the building had to climb to the first floors to avoid drowned. Until the management room of the Metro with numerous computer equipment and screens was razed, as well as the trains workshops. Minutes after everything was flooded, all subway and tram lines also stopped. The Generalitat has invested more than 23 million euros to launch the building again.
The call of 19.34 breaks a moment of disappearance of the president of the Generalitat, who stopped making and taking calls at 18.58, just about fifteen minutes after leaving El Ventoror. Was he in the Palau de la Generalitat? Was it somewhere else? The reality is that the former justice contest Salome Pradas called Carlos Mazón at 19.10 and the president did not take the phone. Nor at 19.36, although it is understood that at that time the Chief of the Consell was talking with Sendra. It was not until 19.43 that Mriton returned the call to Pradas and subsequently called his secretary and the person in charge of organization to mobilize the official car to travel from where he was to the Emergency Coordination Center in L'Eliana, about 20 kilometers from his office. At that time, dozens of people were dying in L'Horta Sud and two hours had passed away in locations such as Chiva or Torrent.
In this regard, the deputy spokeswoman and Deputy of Compromís, Isaura Navarro, has warned that “a president who speaks with the regional secretary trapped in the FGV command post that has been destroyed and still takes an hour to reach Cecopi, it is evident that he cannot continue even one more day in front of any management that affects people or goods.”
The damage to the command center were spectacular. According to the documentation that FGV has sent to the DANA Research Commission in the Corts, to which Eldiario.es has had access, the public company has spent 117 million euros on emergency works derived from the flood. The damage report (complete at the end of the information) also collects unpublished images of the razed facilities.
According to the report, since October 30, and the effects of identifying the affected areas and initiating the damage assessment, it is decided High resolution air by the execution of a flight with drone.
On the other hand, “the rooms of the Valencia Sud enclosure were inspected in order to estimate the scope of the damages caused by the devastating flood.” Once the inspection, analysis and diagnosis work of damages is completed, then, “the status of each of the indicated sections, of the inspected facilities and the estimation of damages together with the assessment of the restitution to a normality situation that has already been managed its hiring by emergency procedures” is detailed.
The report analyzes in a detailed way the damage to the section between Valencia Sud and Sant Isidre; on the beach of roads of Valencia Sud; in the section between Valencia Sud and Paiporta; in the surroundings of the Paiporta station and the bridge over the Poyo ravine; in the sections between Paiporta and Torrent and between Torrent and Villanueva de Castellón; on the bridge over the Magro River and on the Barranco de Prada; in the command position; in railway security facilities; In the workshops, in the stations, in the trains, in the support vehicles and in the Valencia Sud complex.