The ES-Alert sent on Wednesday night to the mobiles of the Valencians arrived at 22:08. At that moment, many streets in Valencia and towns like Torrent were already flooded by the downpour. And even at the Ciudad de Valencia stadium, where the Levante vs Athletic match was suspended, the situation was total chaos. Was the ES-Alert sent late?
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According to the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, it followed technical criteria that he considers “acceptable,” justified by the forecast that the flow of the ravines could increase considerably. The opposition from PSPV and Compromís, however, believe that the alert arrived late when the situation was already serious. This view is shared by the Association of Victims and Those Affected by the Dana of Valencia. For its part, Vox believes that there “could have been failures” in the management and information about the rains.
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Pérez Llorca stated that the people who decided to send the alert message, leading the emergency, followed technical criteria and assured that an ES-Alert message “is not sent to warn that it is going to rain, since this information has already been notified days before based on Aemet’s forecasts.” Likewise, he insisted that warnings of a preventive nature are only sent when a red alert is activated, and that was not the case on Wednesday, when an orange level alert was in effect. For all these reasons, the Valencian president defended that there were warnings “in time and form.”
This was not the opinion of PSPV and Compromís, who requested a hearing of Pérez Llorca in the Corts Valencianes to explain the management of the emergency.
Unanimity that the Levante vs Athletic match should not have been scheduled with a yellow warning
What there was unanimity on yesterday among the Generalitat Valenciana, the Government Delegation, parties like PSPV or Compromís, and the Association of Victims and Those Affected by the Dana of Valencia was to question LaLiga’s decision to maintain the match, despite Aemet’s orange warning, until the torrential rains had already caused numerous incidents and thousands of fans were in the stadium or traveling to it.
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