Overview
- The investigating judge in Catarroja called the former À Punt news director to testify at the request of the private prosecution brought by the party Ciudadanos.
- The court asked À Punt to deliver its L'Oratge weather segments from October 27 and 28, 2024, which meteorologists used to warn about the risk ahead of the October 29 disaster.
- After Victoria Roselló’s testimony, the judge invited À Punt’s head meteorologist to submit the WhatsApp messages she said she sent to her news chief about the unfolding emergency.
- The judge also ordered the regional emergency services company SGISE to detail which forest firefighting units were deployed on October 29 in 12 specified towns, including the times they were mobilized.
- El País reported that Cecopi, the regional emergency coordination body, sent a mass cell-broadcast warning at 20:11 through Spain’s Es Alert system, by which time many of the missing had already died.