This is Mazón's call list on the day of the Dana

BarcelonaThe Valencian Government released this Wednesday the list of calls made by Carlos Mazón on the day of the disaster. This is a partial list because it does not include those made in the morning, nor the missed calls or those he did not answer on that fateful October 29th of last year. One of the new features in the documentation provided by the Presidency is that it expands the number of calls he made up to midnight and reveals that he did not contact the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, until 9:27 p.m., when the situation was completely out of control and the catastrophe had already claimed two lives. The call between the two leaders was repeated just four minutes later, at 9:31 p.m. Feijóo, when he visited Valencia two days after the flood, claimed to have been in "real-time" contact with Mazón since the evening of October 28, but the PP later rectified its position and stated that they spoke in the afternoon and evening of October 29, without specifying the time.

Mazón says he made 26 phone calls on October 29 between 5:37 p.m. and 11:29 p.m., according to the list that the Presidency has submitted to the Valencian Parliament's commission of inquiry. The first of the calls was to the Minister of Justice and the Interior, Salomé Pradas, with whom he spoke five more times throughout that afternoon. This list is not derived from a telephone bill, but from an enumeration made by the Presidency.

It is also striking that This list differs in part from the one presented by Mazón in Madrid at a conference in February, when she failed to include the calls she made after 8:00 p.m., such as those with Feijóo and especially with Pradas, at 8:10 p.m., just one minute before the ES-Alert was sent, from which the head of the council has distanced himself to avoid any criminal liability. A call she did not inform Mazón about at the time and which became known through the documentation provided by Pradas in court on the day she testified. The list includes six calls with Pradas between 5:00 p.m. and 8:11 p.m., but not the two calls he did not answer during that period and which she made public.

The Presidency has also sent the list of calls made from an aide's phone when technical problems caused by the dana prevented him from using his own. From this phone, there are records of a call to Teresa Ribera, Third Vice President of the Spanish Government, at 8:22 PM, and two to First Vice President María Jesús Montero, at 8:55 PM and 9:03 PM, with the situation already completely out of control and the alert already sent. And then, four more calls to the president of Telefónica until 9:30 PM. Two weeks ago, a video was made public of Mazón joining the Cecopio, in which he expressed surprise at not having coverage: "Is this happening to me? Will I be without coverage the whole time?" he asked the emergency personnel, unaware that the network had gone down.

The opposition has attacked Mazón for the documentation provided this Wednesday. "It's an incomplete list, handwritten, and part of the farce by the president, who is incapable of maintaining a coherent version of what he did on October 29," denounced Socialist Party spokesperson José Muñoz. Compromís spokesperson Joan Baldoví expressed the same opinion: "It's just a few calls, not the ones he made all day. Information is still being withheld, and it's arriving in dribs and drabs."

The key to geolocation

The opposition is also demanding that Mazón detail his itinerary on October 29th, as it is only known that he used the official car from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 a.m. on the 30th, but without specifying where he was at any given time. Therefore, the PSOE, Sumar, and the investiture partners have agreed on a work plan for the Dana investigation committee in Congress, which, among other information, plans to request data on Mazón's geolocation during the floods.

According to reports released Wednesday, they want to access the location of Mazón's "official and personal" cell phone on October 29 and 30, 2024, as well as a copy of the "private and public" agenda with "specific times and places" where the Valencian president was on the day of the floods. Congress's plan also includes appearances by Mazón himself, as well as by the leader of the People's Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, and several councilors, ministers, and victims of the flood, as well as the journalist Maribel Vilaplana, with whom he had lunch at El Ventorro until 6:30 p.m., an hour later.