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Judge Mandates Emergency Services to Preserve Valencia Flood Coordination Data

The order secures key records to underpin the criminal inquiry into the Valencia flood fatalities.

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Overview

  • Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra directed the Generalitat Valenciana’s Emergencies department to retain all Coordcom communications from the hydrological alert on October 24 through October 29.
  • The preservation requirement covers written messages and audio and video recordings from the Emergencies Center, the Cecopi coordination hub, advanced command posts and emergency vehicles.
  • The court denied requests for full copies of the archives and limited data retention to October 29, expressly excluding records from October 30.
  • A forensic expert has been appointed and the 112 call center has been ordered to submit detailed logs of calls reporting ravine overflows on October 29.
  • These measures aim to secure evidence crucial to the prosecution of alleged negligent homicide and injury in the October 2024 flood that killed 228 people.