Overview

• Judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra denied a lawyer’s request to revise the toll upward and affirmed that 228 people died in the October 2024 floods.
• The official count includes three people whose bodies were never recovered but who were declared judicially deceased.
• The discrepancy with a 232-victim claim stemmed from duplicate entries and the misclassification of an injured survivor as deceased.
• The confirmed figure aligns with records from the Centro de Integración de Datos and related court findings on flood fatalities.
• The ruling is final with no appeals permitted, and the judge condemned inflated figures as a disrespect to bereaved families.