Overview
- The January 9 videoconference testimony, released on January 23, is part of the judicial probe into the October 29, 2024 deluge that left about 230 people dead in Valencia.
- Feijóo said he neither knew what the Valencian Cecopi was nor that it had been activated that evening, citing his lack of executive powers.
- He testified that he initiated WhatsApp contact with Carlos Mazón at 19:59 and also exchanged messages with regional leaders Juan Manuel Moreno and Emiliano García-Page.
- According to his account, Mazón messaged at 23:25 that bodies were appearing in Utiel, while Feijóo maintained he learned of the first confirmed death the following day.
- He defended not pressing Mazón to resign to avoid a political crisis, said he did not know Mazón’s whereabouts beyond a lunch he later justified as being “connected,” characterized version changes as timing clarifications, sought Telefónica’s CEO contact over outages, and said the DANA constituted a national emergency while noting the ES-Alert was sent on technicians’ advice as Mazón later reached the Cecopi at 20:28.