Maribel Vilaplana, the journalist who ate for almost four hours with Carlos Mazón on October 29, 2024, when the disaster occurred that caused 229 deaths in Valencia, ended her appointment with the current interim president of the Generalitat that day at 7.47pm. after removing your vehicle from a car park in the city centre. This was revealed by the charge of 15.10 euros on the card with which the informant paid for the restaurant, according to a sentence drawn up by the judge of Catarroja (Valencia) investigating the tragedy, Nuria Ruiz Tobarra.
The amount confirms that the informant concluded her appointment with Mazón 24 minutes before the Generalitat sent the massive alarm on cell phones to inform the population of the extent of the misfortune. The notification was sent to the terminals at 8.11pm, when most of the missing people were already dead. And it became the cornerstone of the investigation. The judge claims that if it had been sent earlier, lives would have been saved.
The time of removal of the car arises from the cross-referencing of the data that the journalist presented in court – where she testified on November 3 – with the list of departures that the company that manages the car garage in Plaza de Tetuán in Valencia, Interparking Hispania SA, contributed to the magistrate. In one of the boxes there is an amount of 15.10 euros, which indicates that the car was towed at 7.47 pm. The pass is equivalent to parking for just over five hours, according to the rates published on the parking company’s website.
Therefore, Vilaplana left the car in the garage around 2.45pm. And, after the nearly four-hour lunch with Mazón in El Ventorro (3pm-6.45pm), he spent more than an hour walking the 10-minute walk from El Ventorro to the garage.
