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Court Files Show Valencia Drafted Es-Alert at 18:37 and Sent It at 20:11

The investigating judge calls the message late, noting it told people to stay home rather than seek higher ground.

Overview

  • Documentation from the Subdirectorate General of Emergencies sent to the Catarroja court includes an 18:37 email with the draft text prepared by analyst Juan Ramón Cuevas.
  • A 17:00 internal recording from the Cecopi shows subdirector Jorge Suárez saying a mass mobile message could be sent to the Requena–Utiel area.
  • Authorities drafted the alert amid concern about the Forata dam, and the final message was applied across the province of Valencia.
  • The criminal inquiry led by Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra has taken more than 350 testimonies as reporting attributes 229 deaths to the storm, including 193 linked to the Barranco del Poyo overflow.
  • A popular accusation has asked the court to add a video in which then interior minister Salomé Pradas tells President Carlos Mazón it was an “explosión meteorológica,” which the filing says does not appear in the case record.