The judge in the DANA case requests the Mazón lunch receipt and photos of the private room from El Ventorro.

ValenciaA new development has occurred in the investigation by the judge in Catarroja into the handling of the DANA storm in the Valencian Community. With the aim of clarifying the chronology of the afternoon of October 29th, the investigating judge has requested that the owner of El Ventorro, the Valencia restaurant where Carlos Mazón and journalist Maribel Vilaplana dined, provide information about the meeting and the private room where the lunch took place. Specifically, she is requesting the bill for the meal and details of the room's dimensions, along with photographs, where the acting head of the Valencian government and the journalist were eating as the torrential rains began claiming their first victims. But why does the judge want photos of this private room? In a ruling sent to the parties involved this Monday, the investigating judge emphasizes that these photos are crucial to determining what those who were with Mazón at the restaurant could and could not have heard (from wiretapped conversations with the owner to those with Vilaplana). The judge also wants to clarify a contradiction, given that during her testimony, the journalist stated that she didn't hear Mazón's phone conversations because he would get up and "move aside" to speak more discreetly, taking advantage of the spacious private room. However, the restaurant owner said on Friday that he never heard Mazón on the phone, which was quite small. Ruiz Tobarra has also requested the bill and a list of the meal's contents to determine "the extent of the meal." The judge has also demanded that the WhatsApp messages exchanged on the day of the storm between Juanfran Pérez Llorca, the candidate to succeed Mazón as head of the Generalitat, and former councilor Salomé Pradas, along with his deputy at the Ministry of Justice and the Interior, be compared. Furthermore, she has requested the bill for the corporate phone of the Finestrat City Council, where Pérez Llorca is mayor. From this phone, the Secretary General of the Valencian Community PP also called Mazón at 6:57 p.m. and contacted Pradas at 6:57 p.m. (he didn't answer), 6:58 p.m. (14 seconds of conversation), and 6:59 p.m. (9 seconds). To obtain these details, the judge is relying on the cooperation of Pérez Llorca, who offered to provide the information on Friday. With this evidence, the judge is getting closer to Mazón, whose bodyguards and driver she summoned to testify on Friday.

The PP politician has also been in the news this Monday because Vox has announced that it will not reveal whether it will vote in favor of his investiture until it hears him speak in the Valencian Parliament this Thursday. This was stated by the national spokesperson for the far-right party, José Antonio Fúster, who indicated that Vox "will be paying close attention" to the conservative leader's words. Fúster emphasized his party's interest in learning about Pérez Llorca's proposals for infrastructure projects to prevent a similar tragedy from "happening again." In this regard, he cited the far-right's refusal to sign an agreement with the People's Party, claiming that Núñez Feijóo's party has "deceived them on many occasions." "We've learned the hard way that [agreements] are meaningless (...) that's why we're waiting for his investiture speech," concluded the far-right spokesperson, who stressed that if Pérez Llorca adopts "bipartisan positions," they will vote against him. This Monday, the recent storm also featured prominently in the Congress of Deputies, where the Valencian Vice President and Minister of Social Services and Housing, Susana Camarero, and the President of the Valencia Provincial Council, Vicent Mompó, appeared before the Congress. The first official has shirked responsibility and justified her absence from the Cecopio meeting by claiming she "wasn't invited." She emphasized that if she kept her schedule to attend an employers' association event that same afternoon, it was out of "responsibility." She also defended the operation of the telecare service, despite the deaths of more than 37 users. "They fulfilled their obligation. The professionals made as many phone calls as they could to assist the users, mobilizing all available resources. In some cases they succeeded, and in others they didn't," she summarized.

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