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DANA judge rejects summoning councilors and attributes lack of coordination to Emergencies

The magistrate has confirmed that the lack of coordination in the Consell during the DANA was certified by the ministries, without orders from Justice.

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Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra has issued a ruling rejecting the summons of the Education and Agriculture councilors, attributing the lack of coordination during the DANA to Emergency officials.

Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra has stated in a ruling issued this Wednesday that the lack of coordination within the Consell on the day of the DANA «has been certified» by the different ministries. These ministries received no orders or instructions from the Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for emergencies. The resolution denies the testimony of the Education and Agriculture councilors, attributing the lack of coordination to the emergency officials, who were the then councilor and the regional secretary for Emergencies, both under investigation in the case.
The ruling reproduces the official communications sent by both ministries in response to a judicial request. The Undersecretary of Agriculture informed the court that, after gathering information from all departmental management bodies, «no request for cooperation or for the adoption of citizen protection measures for the DANA of October 29, 2024 was received». The Regional Secretariat of Education made a similar statement, concluding after «appropriate checks in records and management systems» that «no reception of a request for cooperation, a request for the adoption of protection measures, or any communication from the aforementioned bodies regarding the indicated events was found, nor, consequently, the issuance of any response».
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"No request for cooperation or for the adoption of citizen protection measures for the DANA of October 29, 2024 was received."

the Undersecretary of Agriculture
The resolution specifies that the responsibility for this coordination did not fall on the president of the Generalitat, as already established by the TSJCV, but rather on «those responsible for the Special Flood Plan, in the two phases through which the emergency passed», regarding which, it recalls, «the catastrophic emergency situation was never declared». In this way, it insists that the analysis of coordination «must be confirmed by the existence of orders, communications that expressly addressed the risk derived from the DANA, originating from those who held the position of guarantor, who were the directors of the Plan».
With this reasoning, the judge denies the request made by Compromís for the Education and Agriculture councilors at the time of the catastrophe to testify, considering that neither of them participated in the CECOPI meeting, either in person or remotely, and that their testimonies could not address the relevant aspects for the investigation.

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