Overview

• Newly admitted 11-minute-35-second recordings, concealed for months, capture late-afternoon discussions about sending a mass mobile alert as reports arrived of people stranded on roofs.
• The ES‑Alert was not issued until 20:11 despite those talks, a lag the judge deems inexplicable and central to alleged mismanagement in a disaster that left 229 dead.
• Subdirector Jorge Suárez is heard proposing an ES‑Alert targeting Requena‑Utiel and warning of very high intensities near l’Albufera, while UME and firefighters detail access problems and hypothermia risks.
• The footage shows ex‑consellera Salomé Pradas dictating message content and insisting on reviewing texts before sending, undermining her claim of a secondary role.
• Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra has refused to archive the case, reaffirmed that population alerts are a regional responsibility rather than CHJ or Aemet’s, and requested a report on September’s storm where an ES‑Alert was issued well in advance.