The alert to the mobile phones that the Generalitat Valenciana sent on October 29 to notify the population of the largest tragedy that Valencia has ravaged- the Dana that left 228 dead and a trail of destruction- was “late” and “confusing.” Alberto Martínez, a geologist engineer and expert in natural risk management, has defended this thesis on Tuesday before the Judge of Catarroja (Valencia), Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, who criminally investigates the flood, according to the document to which the country has had access. During its statement as an expert before the magistrate, Martínez has thus referred to the message that the Valencian Executive sent to the phones at 20.11 hours of October 29 There were already dozens of deceased people, missing and trapped in low floors and garages. In his opinion, the massive mobile alert should have been sent after the activation of the red notice, which the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) launched at 7.36 hours in the morning of the day of the flood. The expert also believes that the content of the message could have been obtained from a library of texts for the system is alert that the University of Alicante developed in the wake of the floods of the Vega Baja A letter for each natural catastrophe modality. Martínez has declared that he believes there was enough time to protect the population that was the day of the Dana in potentially flood areas. “You just had to climb them to floors from above. It was not about evicting the people,” he told the judge. According to the expert, the overflow of the ravine of the poyo, epicenter of the tragedy, was predictable. “Knowing that it rained at noon in Chiva or Buñol, a geologist engineer would not have much difficulty knowing that all that water was going to produce overflow,” he said. The expert has also referred to instruments such as the National Cartography System of flood areas to abound in the idea that there were different solvent sources of information to have reacted with more diligence before the catastrophe. Last minute noticies. There will be update shortly. (Tagstotranslate) Valencian Community
