What happened during military maneuvers in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba) last December, where two soldiers died while trying to cross a lake with twelve kilos of weight, continues to have its tail. The investigation opened to clarify the facts and clarify responsibilities put the captain of the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade in the spotlight.
According to the lawyers of the drowned victims, he is responsible for the fatal accident in the absence of prior planning of the exercises and, therefore, rapid intervention by the emergency services. Now, the program Code 10, on Cuatro, has exclusively broadcast the audio of the call the captain made to 112 asking for help.
While the captain of Cerro Muriano assures in his statement that he made prior planning for the exercise, authorized by his chain of command, and that there was a lifeline; The relatives of the victims express another, very different reality through their lawyers. The maneuvers did not have the necessary planning nor did they have the safety measures required in the event of any accident.
In fact, the danger of the exercise was evident, since a previous group began the maneuver and warned of the terrible conditions. A warning that the captain allegedly ignored and ordered to continue. Shortly after, soldier Carlos León began to drown and his companion Miguel Ángel Jiménez also died trying to save him.
The chaos to find his companions was total and this is when the captain finally made the call to 112 to request help. An audio broadcast by Code 10, the events program presented by Nacho Abad and David Aleman on Cuatro, in which, for the first time, we hear the soldier completely desperate in the face of the fateful events.
“I am the captain of the land army. “I’m at the Cerro Muriano maneuvering field,” he begins by telling the 112 operator. “A soldier has drowned in the lake!” He continues, very upset. “We need someone to dive as quickly as possible, for a helicopter to come. We didn’t find the guy,” he said during the call.
When the 112 operator asked him if the person was alive, the captain insisted that they could not find him. His nervousness was evident. In fact, there comes a time when the captain addresses someone and we hear him say: “You go ahead, I’m going to look, I don’t care, let the Civil Guard come with diving.”
Minutes later, the captain made a second emergency call: “I urgently need the Civil Guard to dive.” But there are problems indicating its exact location. Finally, the group of specialists arrived at 1:30 p.m.
