Vicent Mompó backtracks on exonerating Mazón in the DANA case.

ValenciaFrom an antagonist of Carlos Mazón and an exemplary leader who, in his own words, was "where he had to be" and decided to attend the Cecopio from the beginning despite not being a full member, to an ally of the president of the Generalitat after he denied this Thursday before the judge investigating the DANA case that he had spoken by phone with the head of the Consell about the dispatch of the ES-Alert. Saved from La Sexta last December, when he stated that the provincial deputy for Firefighters, Avelino Mascarell, informed him around 6 p.m. of the critical situation on the promenade, and that he had spoken by phone with Mazón about "the content" of the warning before its broadcast and about whether "a part of the community should be alerted."

Mompó justified his new account by saying that the interview was "manipulated" because only a small portion of their conversation was broadcast. A few minutes out of more than an hour and a half of questions and answers, he emphasized. Regarding the content of his statements, he said today that it is "impossible for him to have spoken with Mazón about ES-Alert" because its use was not discussed in the Cecopio until 7:00 PM. He did admit that he spoke by phone with the Consell camp "at 5:46 PM," but he doesn't remember "what" they discussed. Regarding the overflowing of the Poio ravine—the ravine that caused most of the deaths—he claims that the conversation with Mascarell didn't take place until 9:00 PM.

The president of the Valencia Provincial Council has insisted that until 7 p.m., all the attention of the emergency committee was focused on the possible rupture of the Forata reservoir, which regulates the Magro River, despite the fact that technicians were already considering this option in an adjoining room since 6:36 p.m. Concern for the reservoir meant that the Poio ravine was overlooked, which had been overflowing since 5 p.m. in Chiva and since 6 p.m. in l'Horta Sud. This oversight occurred although only from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. did they receive 2,438 calls to 112 alerting them of the situation.

After learning about the Mompó witness, the general secretary of the PSPV and Minister of Science, Diana Morant, announced that her party will request the indictment of the president of the Valencia Provincial Council for lying in court and for failing to provide assistance.