Overview
- The Second Section of the Valencia Provincial Court dismissed an appeal to elevate the case to the TSJCV to investigate acting regional president Carlos Mazón and upheld the refusal to summon Government delegate Pilar Bernabé as investigated.
- A separate order rejected new evidence requests directed at the Júcar River Basin Authority, including SAIH data, sensor “black box” analyses and Coordcom records sought by ex‑consellera Salomé Pradas’s defense and by a private accuser.
- Magistrates said the contested denials were properly reasoned and either duplicative of evidence already in the case or insufficiently justified, meeting Article 24 constitutional standards on judicial motivation.
- Since May, the panel has issued 26 rulings on appeals in the flood investigation and has upheld the judge’s decisions in 23 of them, all adopted unanimously by the six‑judge section chaired by José Manuel Ortega Lorente.
- The centralized inquiry led by Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra at Catarroja Court No. 3 examines the October 2024 disaster that left 229 dead, with only three narrow appellate corrections to date, including admitting Hazte Oír, partially allowing journalist Maribel Vilaplana’s testimony and voiding the grouping of new popular accusations.