Mazón would have accompanied Maribel Vilaplana in the parking lot at 6:45 p.m. on the day of the incident.

ValenciaDetails about what Valencian President Carlos Mazón did on the day of the disaster are emerging only slowly, even a year after the catastrophe, and they often contradict previously reported information. According to the information released this Sunday, The Levant and ARA has confirmed, after lunch with journalist Maribel Vilaplana at the Ventorro restaurant, when the catastrophic storm was already causing havoc, the head of the Consell would have accompanied the journalist to a parking lot located near the establishment where they had lunch and where she had parked her car. A situation that occurred at 6:45 p.m.

The new version about Mazón's afternoon comes after this Saturday Eldiario.es and The Country According to witnesses, after finishing lunch with Vilaplana at around 6:30 p.m., the Valencian president went home instead of being at the Palau de la Generalitat to monitor the progress of the emergency. This new information has been confirmed to ARA by the journalist's entourage.

Now, this version collides with the letter that the journalist herself made in September, who broke his silence after almost a year: "The interruptions caused by calls, combined with waiting and saying goodbye, also delayed my departure from the restaurant, which finally occurred between 6:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.," she said in a statement at the time. That is to say, just two months ago Vilaplana spoke in the first person when referring to her departure from Ventorro, without mentioning that she also left accompanied by Mazón.

According to the journalist's entourage, she omitted that detail about the parking when she made her letter public because it seemed "inconsequential." On behalf of the Generalitat, sources close to Mazón told the Efe news agency that the Valencian president accompanied her to her car, parked in the Glorieta de la Pau, and then walked to the Palau starting at 6:45 p.m. along Carrer de la Pau. It should be noted that the Generalitat (Catalan government) did not send an alert to Valencians warning them of the catastrophe until 8:11 p.m., when the situation was already irreversible and numerous deaths had already occurred.

The Catarroja judge investigating the Dana case, in which 229 people died, has summoned Maribel Vilaplana to testify as a witness on November 3 at 9:30 a.m. What she can say in court will be crucial in trying to clarify the facts.