Overview
- The October 29, 2024 DANA caused 229 deaths in the Valencian region, triggering eleven large demonstrations with tens of thousands of participants.
- Families of the victims pressed for accountability for more than a year and said Mazón never received them.
- PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo spent about a year trying to contain the fallout before moving to resolve Mazón’s future after the anger seen at the state funeral attended by the Kings.
- Reporting details that Mazón acknowledged arriving at the Cecopi emergency center 17 minutes after the alert and that he spent much of the afternoon dining with journalist Maribel Vilaplana at El Ventorro.
- A judicial inquiry in Catarroja continues to reconstruct events as the Valencian PP enters a transition and faces pressure to rebuild trust, following accusations the Generalitat tried to craft an alternative narrative to avoid criminal liability.