The summary of the flood confirms that most of the deaths occurred before the alert was sent: "He slipped and was carried away by the force of the water"

The summary of the Dana confirms a reality that the judge of Catarroja who is investigating the "reckless homicides and injuries" that occurred on October 29 had been pointing out. Most of the deaths occurred even before the 8:11 p.m. alert reached the population's cell phones. According to the magistrate, the warning was "late and erroneous", because many of the victims died in garages or on ground floors without anyone warning them otherwise.

"He slipped and was swept away by the force of the water," said, for example, a man who lost his father in Catarroja when he was trying to rescue his vehicle from a garage at 7 p.m.

"A van dragged by the water broke down the garage door and all the water came in suddenly," said the wife of one of the deceased. That was around 8pm, although the UME was not able to access the garage until the following day.

Another witness tells how he tried to help his mother in Sedaví as soon as he saw the water rising. "I was just 30 or 40 metres away but it was impossible to get there," according to the summary.

Another woman reported the death of her father in Benetússer. However, it was not until October 31 that they "could enter the house because it was full of cars piled up." According to another testimony, the neighbors saw an elderly woman "thrown out of the door of the house on the same sofa where she was sitting."

In Torrent, at 3.30pm on 29 October, an elderly man told his son that there was water in the house. "When his brother came, the flood had brought down the house," the report says.

In Sedaví, an 87-year-old woman was found "dead sitting in her chair, possibly from drowning, as water entered the house up to 1.60 meters high, through several windows."

The 935 pages of the case file contain dozens of testimonies of this kind, with the majority of victims being elderly people who, as the judge maintains, did not have the opportunity to get to safety. The judge points to the "avoidability" of the deaths.