At the meeting held on Tuesday afternoon in Moncloa, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezhe said Electric red and the main energy operators of the country that facilitate the gross data of what happened during the blackout Huge that has left Spain without light for more than 10 hours, after the ree technicians have not contributed with an answer on the reasons for the collapse of the system and highlighted discrepancies And not coordination between Moncloa and Red Electric, a company participated in the state. The intention of the government is to obtain this gross data in order to carry out their investigations to try to clarify the causes of the energy crisis.
In Moncloa, the declarations of the director of Ree operations, Eduardo Prieto, in which The operator discarded the computer attack as the cause of the blackoutthey aroused the discomfort after the presidency Keep all the possibilities open As you carry out your investigations on what happened. Sánchez, in fact, said he had known the position of power on the computer attack from the media, which he rejected to have solid indications.
The executive now tells the participatory company that facilitates all possible information, although Ree has transmitted to the government that the reason for the blackout did not appreciate in its registers. On Wednesday Moncloa tried to calm the waters and underline that Red Electrician collaborated at any time and transferred information, Coming to support the president of the entity, Beatriz EpradorAnd underlining his “extraordinary” work during the crisis.
However, the third vice -president, Sara Aagesen, informed in a press conference that the commission investigators made up of Moncloa will move to electrical installations to carry out checks on situ.
It is studied if the blackout was an attack against critical infrastructures
At the same time, the judge of the national court, José Luis Calama, The open cause decreed secretly To investigate whether the blackout could be an act of sabotage on the computer against Spanish critical infrastructures, which would constitute a Crime of terrorism. The Court therefore responds to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, which he told the magistrate to maintain the progress of the investigations due to the nature and circumstances of what happened.
The judge explains in the order that the decision to maintain the case tries to “prevent a situation that could Seriously compromise the result of the research“. The judge of the requested national court, After opening the investigationAt the National Cryptological Center and electric red the processing of two relationships to indicate the causes that motivated the blackout and the National Police Information Police Station which sent a preliminary report on the events that occurred.
In his car, Calama remembers him IT crimes can be qualified as terrorism when their purpose is seriously destabilizing the constitutional order or FUncionation of essential servicesAccording to article 573 of the penal code, although the investigations continue to try to clarify the causes of blackout and the electricity that the discarded red, in a preliminary way, a IT attack. The entity indicates two independent generation losses before cutting the offer.
