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 show 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, to which ARA has had access and dating from 1:56 PM on October 29, a 112 technician comments that the danger "is not the rain itself, but what the ravines carry." And Pradas responds: "Exactly, it'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. In one of the recordings, it can be seen that they had been there since at least 12:32 p.m., the time that appears 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 him: "We have issued a hydrological alert for the Magro River, the closest one, and for the Poio ravine." Suárez is referring to the alert declared for the Magro at 11:45 a.m. and for the Poio ravine at 12:30 p.m. Two warnings that would be confirmed a few hours later when the two streams of water overflowed, causing the deaths of 229 people.

In the video of this moment and to which the ARA has had access, the counselor is seen making notes in a report from 12:15 hours entitled Meteo dana Valencian CommunityIn Pradas' handwritten notes you can read "Río Magro / Rambla del Pollo" - misspelled, with double spelling - and the words hydrological alert and ravines.

The new videos come after the judge investigating the management of 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.