Overview
- Local media report that the 112 emergency-service technician who validated the ES-Alert died late Tuesday of a heart attack and had previously testified in the DANA case.
- He validated the mass message from home and certified the send at 20:11, according to case records cited in the coverage.
- In his testimony he said he was first asked at 18:36 to prepare the alert, contradicting former regional minister Salomé Pradas’s timeline, while subdirector Jorge Suárez later told the court he raised the option at 17:15.
- An audio of the approval process captures the technician asking for the go-ahead and Suárez authorizing it after rejecting an initial Spanish/English draft in favor of a Spanish/Valencian version known as code 708.
- The presiding judge has concluded the alert was tardy and its wording erroneous, saying it hindered public self-protection, and the judicial investigation remains active.