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Maribel Vilaplana to Testify Today About Lunch With Valencia’s President During Fatal Floods

An appeals court ordered her sworn account to test whether it can add material facts to the probe of the region’s flood response.

Overview

  • Vilaplana is scheduled to appear as a witness at 9:30 a.m. before Investigating Court No. 3 of Catarroja, presided over by judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra.
  • The Audiencia Provincial’s Section Two compelled the summons after ruling it cannot be ruled out she heard calls or comments by President Carlos Mazón during the crisis, a scope not precluded by her public letter.
  • The judge asked her to provide the parking ticket from València’s Glorieta and any documents that corroborate how long she remained with Mazón after their meal at El Ventorro.
  • Sources say Vilaplana spent a few hours in hospital for an indisposition and returned home, and she remains due to testify as cited.
  • EL PAÍS reports she recently stated she left the restaurant between 18:30 and 18:45, later than an earlier account, as investigators examine timing and what she may have learned during conversations related to the disaster that left 229 dead.