Madrid (Spain), 29 October. (LaPresse) – ‘It is incomprehensible that the governor of Valencia, Carlos Mazon, is attending the state funeral for the victims of Dana,’ given that the victims' families asked him not to be present and today, ‘instead of taking stock of what happened, apologising and resigning, he made a solemn speech that was like a mockery of the victims.’ This was stated to LaPresse by Giuseppe Grezzi, Italian city councillor in Valencia for the left-wing Compromis party, who for years was the city's councillor for mobility. The victims' families ‘asked that Mazon not attend the funeral because he is ultimately responsible for what happened and for the deaths that occurred a year ago,’ Grezzi added, contesting the fact that the Popular Party governor continues to ignore the victims' families, whom ‘he has not received and to whom he has not apologised’. Mazon ‘is out of touch with reality’ and is trying to ‘divert attention from his responsibilities’, he said on 29 October, the official day of mourning for the victims, but this "is neither apologising nor explaining where he was that day. He has lied several times, given ten different versions of where he was during the emergency, and is now thinking more about his defence in court than his responsibility as governor,‘ ’he had the responsibility to coordinate the emergency," remarked the city councillor. Mazon is not currently under investigation, while the former councillor for the Interior and Justice, Salomé Pradas, and her former number two are. According to Grezzi, the legal battle will be ‘very long’ and could last ‘years’. The president of the emergency committee, Cecopi, was the councillor, who, however, is subordinate to the governor and, according to the councillor, Mazon would be guilty if it emerged that he did not give his approval to the councillor's requests. The investigating judge in Catarroja, who is conducting the investigation, will gather all the evidence and testimonies before requesting that Mazon be investigated, Grezzi continued. According to the former councillor, Mazon remains in office due to “party and power calculations”. “The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is weak and does not have the ability to tell him to leave; the whole party is supporting him. They are thinking about power instead of taking responsibility” for what happened.
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