Magistrate Nuria Ruiz Tobarra has accepted the request from the PSPV, one of the popular accusations involved in the DANA case, to take testimony from the driver of the former Counselor of Interior and Justice, Salomé Pradas. Pradas is one of the two individuals under investigation in the judicial proceedings. The judge has requested the Conselleria de Emergencias to provide the driver's identity details to facilitate the summons, for which a date has not yet been set.
The socialists justified their request by stating that individuals who accompanied Pradas on her trips had given "evasive" and "significant gaps" in their previous statements regarding conversations held in the vehicle. The objective is to clarify these information gaps about the journeys made by the former official, such as her midday trips to and from Carlet.
Furthermore, the investigating judge has also accepted the initiation of proceedings concerning the Chiva fire department unit, a municipality located at the head of the Poyo ravine, which caused most of the 230 fatalities. The association Mai Més, also acting as a popular accusation, had requested the testimony of four firefighters from the Chiva station, which was already flooded before 6:00 PM on the day of the tragedy.
The watch commander of the Chiva firefighters notified the Valencia Fire Consortium that the building at the Chiva outpost was already flooding at 5:50 PM.
According to a report published by this newspaper, the watch commander of the Chiva firefighters alerted the Valencia Fire Consortium that the Chiva outpost was already flooding at 5:50 PM on the tragic day. The report also details how agents had to abandon a fire truck in the industrial estate of the same municipality in La Hoya de Buñol after it became "blocked by water". The firefighters had been mobilized ten minutes earlier, at 5:40 PM, for a rescue that ultimately could not be carried out, according to another report.
