Chronology of Carlos Mazón's day on the day of the dana according to his version

Until then, his official agenda was there. The one after that is the one that has been refined as the days and months have passed, with different versions. It was not until November 8 that sources from the Presidency acknowledged that “the President had a private working lunch with Maribel Vilaplana, a professional of recognized prestige and with a long career in the audiovisual and communication sector; he met with this person to discuss the possibility of directing and joining the new project of the regional television À Punt”.

It should be noted that when the invoice for the meal was requested, in a parliamentary response that was made known on December 26, the Presidency replied that “the lunches or dinners that the President of the Generalitat celebrates in his capacity as President of the Popular Party of the Valencian Community are entirely paid for by his political party.” On November 8, the meal with Maribel had been framed as “one more meeting in the round of meetings that the President and his team at the Generalitat are having to sound out professionals from the world of communication to join the À Punt project.”

In the same version, it is explained that "during the entire meeting, the president was also receiving information on the evolution of the storm from the councilor, who was already with her Emergency team following and supervising the evolution of the situation from the command center in La Eliana (112)". The journalist herself acknowledged to this newspaper that the president had telephone conversations during the banquet, but without reporting the content of them and with whom he spoke.

Last Monday in Madrid, Mazón revealed that the first call with Pradas was at 17:37, and that there were another 15 calls until 19:44. This already indicated that the president arrived later than 19:43 at Cecopi because it was the last call he had with the former minister, who was present at the Emergency body.

The Presidency maintained that Mazón arrived at the Palau de la Generalitat at 7 p.m. in the same statement. On Wednesday he assured that, after the meal, which ended after 5 p.m., he was at the Palau and, “then on his way to Cecopi.”

Regarding the time he travelled, the Presidency explained that “Once the President was informed of the risk of the Forata dam breaking, and of the radical change in the situation, with the danger that this entailed, he travelled to the command centre in L'Eliana after 7:00 p.m., to monitor the situation on site.” The President said in Parliament that “the journey was not easy. The bad weather, as is normal in these situations, caused a high density of traffic and lengthened the journey until I arrived at L'Eliana with the Cecopi working at full capacity.”

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The lack of specificity that he went to Cecopi “after 7:00 p.m.,” fueled the hypothesis, also reported by this newspaper, that he was present while the sending of ES-Alert was being discussed. But today Mazón has denied any change of version: “I have never changed the version.” In fact, asked about this time lapse between 7:00 a.m. and 8:28 p.m., Mazón has answered to the journalists that 8:28 p.m. “is after 7:00 p.m., it is a factual event.”

The truth is that until last Tuesday, almost four months after the flood, no one in the Presidency or in Mazón's entourage had denied that he arrived between 19:30 and 19:45, much less hinted that he had done so when the alert had already been sent. Only yesterday, the president of the Provincial Council, Vicent Mompó, supported this theory with which, later, the Generalitat informed the judge that Mazón was not in the command centre when the alert was sent.

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With the story known in the last few hours, Mazón establishes a chronology that begins at 3 p.m., which continues at 5:37 p.m. with his first call to the former minister Salomé Pradas (the Cecopi was convened at 5 p.m.), that he had several calls with her and that he physically arrived at the Cecopi at 8:28 p.m., when the ES-Alert alarm had been sent.

It is important to note that this story was revealed by the Generalitat just when the investigating judge of Catarroja has asked for an explanation of which authorities were at Cecopi when the alert was sent. The judge is working on the hypothesis, according to the published documents , that the alert was late and could have been the cause of so many fatalities.