The magistrate has issued a ruling incorporating into the investigation communications from October 29, 2024, voluntarily provided by Susana Camarero during her testimony. The resolution also agrees to transfer the provided messages and the anonymized call list to the involved parties and the prosecutor.
During Camarero's testimony, one of the lawyers representing Acció Cultural del País Valencià, Manolo Mata, requested that the vice-president voluntarily hand over the WhatsApp group messages from the day of the DANA, which included the consellers and the former president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón. Initially, Camarero refused, arguing that the data might affect other individuals, but she eventually agreed to provide them after a recess.
The content of these messages, revealed during the day, shows how Mazón conveyed early on October 29 the need to "flood" the media with data to "give a sense of being extremely alert" and "calm people down." Mazón's inaugural message was at 8:15 AM, while the Minister of Infrastructure, Vicente Martínez Mus, sent a message at 11:53 PM, and the then-spokesperson, Ruth Merino, at 0:44 AM on October 30, sent a message of "much encouragement" to those on the front lines.
The messages also show how Mazón warned the former Minister of Justice and Interior, Salomé Pradas, about a typo in a tweet, and instructed other consellers such as José Antonio Rovira (Education), Susana Camarero (Social Services), and Miguel Barrachina (Agriculture) to pay attention to incidents and provide detailed information to "project an image of control." Pradas replied that "everything was under control" and that level 1 had been declared in Ribera Alta.
Throughout the day, data was exchanged regarding affected municipalities, hydrological alerts, and incidents in infrastructure such as the Utiel ITV station or FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana), where a train was trapped with 10 passengers. Incidents were also reported in nursing homes, health centers, and hospitals like those in Alzira and Requena, and "substantial" damage to schools and institutes was reported.
Following the dispatch of the ES-Alert to the population at 8:11 PM, messages reflected incidents and trapped individuals. Camarero noted "nursing homes flooded without firefighters being able to reach them," while Mus reported 30 people isolated at the FGV headquarters. Rovira communicated damage to schools and the suspension of classes and school transport, as well as isolated incidents like three children trapped on a bus in Chiva. It was also indicated that the Cheste residence was "under control."
In one of the messages, Rovira added, an hour after the ES-Alert, that "the left has started its campaign," and forwarded an alert about a "fake message" concerning the opening of floodgates at the Forata reservoir. Previously, in the morning, a message from the PSPV-PSOE about "corruption in the ITV" had been shared.
