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

BarcelonaDetails about what Valencian President Carlos Mazón did on the day of the attack are emerging only slowly, even a year later, and they often contradict previously reported information. According to the information released this Sunday, The Levant and Efe has confirmed, after eating with journalist Maribel Vilaplana at the Ventorro restaurant, when the catastrophic storm was already causing havoc, Mazón 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 The newspaper and El País They published, based on witnesses, that 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, according to Efe, by both the Generalitat and the journalist Vilaplana's entourage.

However, this version conflicts with the letter the same journalist wrote 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 Efe, citing sources close to the journalist, she omitted this detail about the parking when she made her letter public because it seemed "inconsequential." On behalf of the Generalitat, sources close to Mazón specify that the Valencian president accompanied her to the car, parked in the Glorieta de la Pau, and then walked to the Palau from 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 after 8 p.m., when the situation was already irreversible for those trapped in the storm.

The Catarroja judge investigating the Dana case, which resulted in 229 deaths, has summoned Maribel Vilaplana to testify as a witness on November 3 at 9:30 a.m. What she says in court will be crucial.