Following in the footsteps of Carlos Mazón
On Sunday night, after the 30 minutes Get out of the mud, another report was broadcast with the title of the question that has been most repeated in the media in the last year: Where was Mazón? In short, it summarized the objective of the program: to take all the available pieces about Mazón's movements on that fateful day of the Dana of October 29, compile all the statements about it and try to fit the puzzle together to draw conclusions. An investigative work byEldiario.es It begins with one of the journalists copying onto a blackboard all the times Mazón himself explained what he had done. They then fill in the timeline with other data, evidence, and versions. Between the famous lunch at El Ventorro and his reappearance at Cecopio, there is a mysterious blank space. Aside from trying to follow the steps of the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, the report allows us to review the development of the catastrophe. The head of meteorology for À Punt explains that five days earlier, according to the forecasts, she warned her television colleagues about the storm in order to plan how they would report it.
The report uses devastating narrative transitions: an endless list of calls received by the emergency services flashes across the screen, indicating the time and the complaints from citizens. It is a very powerful visual device that corroborates the chaos and scope of the tragedy from early on.
The report interviews experts from different fields to give their version of events, comparing their statements with those of Carlos Mazón, Vice President Susana Camarero, and Councilor Salomé Pradas. It also reviews archive images in detail: it recovers a scene from the coordination center where Pradas takes note of the emergency in the Poio ravine at 12:30 p.m. Zoom in on the paper he's writing on. Beyond not spelling the name of the site correctly, it confirms their knowledge of the situation.
Regarding the mysterious strip where no one knows what Mazón was doing, this Monday the media reported a new version that could complement the report's version. Where was Mazón? He insinuates that the president went home to make porridge. And now it's been published that he accompanied journalist Maribel Vilaplana into the parking lot. At this point, more than the chronology and details of the events, the scandal that must be revealed is the disappearance of security camera images and call reports that the journalistic work has encountered. Also, the prohibition of access to official documents that should be publicly available and the fact that Valencian public television has denied the use of its images so that the report cannot use them. A flagrant violation of the right to information that should become a new investigation and another television complaint.
