Overview

• Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra dismissed two reform petitions by a victim’s lawyer that sought to inflate the official death count and link the Forata dam to the Poyo ravine overflow.
• The magistrate labeled the dam allegations as unfounded rumors unsupported by any technical data or geographical analysis.
• Engineer Francisco Vallés and geography professor Ana Camarasa testified that the Forata dam had no impact on the flood surge in the Poyo ravine.
• The ruling reaffirmed that 228 people died in the October flash flood, including an eight-month-pregnant woman, and rejected claims of higher casualty figures.
• The court has incorporated additional victim declarations into the case file and is reviewing a petition from Acció Cultural del País Valencià on the trial’s venue.