New videos confirm that Pradas knew about the danger of the ravines at midday during the DANA.

Barcelona / ValenciaNew evidence against Salomé Pradas for her management of the DANA (National Emergency Management Agency). At least two videos incorporated into the case being investigated by Catarroja judge Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, and to which ARA has had access, demonstrate that the former Valencian Minister of Justice and the Interior knew from noon on the day of the tragedy that the Poio ravine and the Magro River needed to be controlled. She had even expressed concern about possible flooding. However, the emergency coordination body, Cecopio, would not be convened until 5:00 PM, and the alert to the public would not be issued until 8:11 PM.

These are recordings made by a production company for the Generalitat's Emergency Department, which the department had hidden until now. In one of them, dating from 1:56 PM on October 29, a 112 technician comments that the dangerous thing "is not the rain itself, but what the ravines carry." And Pradas responds: "Exactly, that's what worries us most at the moment."

The videos were recorded at the Emergency Coordination Center, and Pradas appears alongside his deputy, Emilio Argüeso, also under investigation by the magistrate. One of the recordings shows that they had been there since at least 12:32 p.m., the time shown on the real-time situation monitoring panels.

In another fragment, Pradas can be seen taking notes while the deputy director general of Emergencies, Jorge Suárez, tells her: "We have issued a hydrological alert for the Magro River, which is the closest, and for the Poio ravine." Suárez is referring to the alarm declared for the Magro at 11:45 a.m. and for Poio at 12:30 p.m. Two warnings that would be confirmed a few hours later when the two streams of water overflowed, causing the death of 229 people.

In the video at this moment, the councilor can be seen making notes in a report from 12:15 p.m. entitled Meteo dana Valencian Community. In Pradas' handwritten notes you can read "Río Magro / Rambla del Pollo" - misspelled, with a double spelling - and the words "hydrological alert" and "ravines".

The new videos come after the judge investigating the management of the DANA made public on Friday a forceful ruling in which she speaks of"overwhelming evidence of negligent conduct" on the part of PradasIn his letter, he considers the former councilor responsible for "gross negligence," not only for the extremely serious fatal outcome, but also for the slowness in adopting measures, including the convening of the Cecopio (Cecopio) and the issuing of an alert to the population. He adds that the lack of "control of the ravines" also affects the area.