The Minister of Justice and Interior, Salome Pradashas stated that “of course” he knew of the existence of the mass alert system Es-Alert and has defended that this was activated on October 29 “once each situation had been analyzed and studied by the technicians, and following their reports, explanations, recommendations, protocols and technical indications.”
This is how Pradas expressed herself this Thursday through a message on the social network knew that the alert system existed”, so, in their opinion, there has been “negligence” and they demand political consequences.
This Thursday, Pradas made statements to À Punt in which, according to his story, on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. he received a call from the Secretary of State for Ecological Transition, dependent on the Ministry, who told him that he was in Colombia, finding out about the situation. and that he could not assure him that the Forata dam was not going to break. At that time, he admitted that A technician informed them that the population notification tool Es-Alert existed..
Subsequently, Pradas, through a message on the social network cannot assure you that the Forata dam will not break“a technician informs us that there is a mechanism called Es-Alert, which is not regulated for now, which is not in our regional plans, which is still a draft that is in the National Civil Protection Committee to be approved.” “It is when they give us this information, the only verbal information regarding the Forata dam, that we decide to activate Es-Alert, a unanimous decision by Cecopi,” he stressed.
“Of course I knew about the existence of the mass message sending system alerts to the population in cases of emergencies, a system that was activated by Cecopi once the Ministry of Ecological Transition recognized the imminent risk of the Forata dam breaking at 8 p.m. on October 29,” he stated. .
Likewise, he added that “all warnings and alerts were activated once each situation had been analyzed and studied by the technicians, and following their reports, explanations, recommendations, protocols and technical indications.”
The councilor has assured that “every step that the Generalitat has taken” has been done “based on the reports, the information we had about the Aemet and of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation“.”If we didn’t have the information, we couldn’t act.”he added.
Previously, in statements to Cope, Pradas has stressed that, after telling him on Tuesday at 8 p.m. the Secretary of State for Ecological Transition that “he cannot guarantee that the dam will resist,” a technician proposes sending Es-Alert.
“If the dam broke, the flood, which has already been catastrophic, would have been apocalyptic. And at that moment is when a technician, not a politician, because no politician makes decisions without a technician proposing it, we send the Es-Alert,” he stated.