The judge of Catarroja who handles the case concerning the management of the dana that on October 29, 2024 caused 234 deaths in the province of Valencia has decided to open a new separate piece of the proceedings on death following the request of a family made up within the Asociación de Damnificados Dana Valencia.
The family members ask that their father be recognized as a victim of the dana. The magistrate has ordered that a specific piece on death be initiated with the documentation provided, has called on the children to testify, and has required that it be verified whether there is any prior criminal proceeding under his name in other courts in order to have it added to this case.
At the same time, the judge has ordered that a written submission filed by the representation of the Asociación de Víctimas Mortales DANA 29-O be incorporated into the piece on death already opened in relation to a user of the Paiporta residence, a center in which six residents died as a result of the floods.
In light of what was raised in that written submission, the investigating judge, by means of a ruling, has ordered that letters be sent to the Paiporta residence so that they provide her with the medical and nursing records from the day of the dana, with details of the circumstances of the rescue, the patient’s condition after evacuation, her vital signs, and the healthcare assistance provided.
She also requests the original report of the health assessment carried out on October 30 on that user, with the clinical and respiratory examination and the reasons why it was not considered necessary to transfer her to the hospital, in addition to other complementary tests carried out.
For the residence to which the affected person was later referred, the judge requires the medical records and follow-up records up to November 3, in order to know her respiratory progress and other relevant aspects of her state of health.
She also requires the Hospital Clínico to send the documentation relating to the assistance provided to the woman on November 3 and a complete history of the evolution of the clinical picture up to her death. Once all of that has been reviewed, she asks the Instituto de Medicina Legal de Valencia to send the autopsy report carried out or, as the case may be, explain the reasons why it was not carried out.
The head of Plaza number 3 of the Civil and Criminal Court Section of the Tribunal de Instancia de Catarroja issued last October 30 an order in which she raised the official count of mortal victims attributed to the dana of Valencia to 234.
The last victim incorporated by the instructor is a 73-year-old neighbor from Paiporta who was injured during the flooding of his home and died almost a month later, on November 26, at the General Hospital of Valencia, as a result of an infectious endocarditis caused by the bacteria E Faecalis.
At the end of October, the magistrate had under review six case files of possible victims in order to determine whether they should be added to the proceedings, of which one, the most recent, has already been formally incorporated into the case.