After the dam broke in Brazil, they arrested eight employees of the Vale mining company

Eight employees of the Vale mining company were arrested on Friday as part of the investigations for the rupture of a dam in Brazil that has caused at the present time more than 160 dead and about 150 missing, informed judicial sources.

The arrests took place in the states of Rio de Janeiro, San Pablo and Minas Gerais at the request of the Public Ministry of Mines, who stated that the purpose of the operation was "investigating criminal liability for dam failure"

According to a communiqué of the Public Prosecutor's Office, among those arrested there are four Vale managers, two of them frames and four members of the respective technical teams, all "involved in the safety" of the dam that collapsed on January 25th.

Prisons were sentenced for a temporary period of 30 days, "taking into account author-founded grounds or participation of those who have been the subject of an investigation to practice hundreds of crimes of homicide qualified, considered smelly, "according to the same sources.

The prosecution claims that Vale, the world's largest producer and exporter of iron, had since October 2018 data that warned against the risk of collapse of the dam, which would appear in the internal documents of the company.

The president of the mining company, Fábio SchvartsmanNonetheless, he stressed the day before when he appeared before a parliamentary committee to investigate the tragedy of the information on the dam.he indicated no imminent danger"

Schvartsman added that the company is a "jewel" for Brazil and that she "can not be condemned" for the tragedy, a statement that has scandalized several parliamentarians, the ruling party and the opposition , who demanded "answers" from society to the disaster.

The tragedy occurred on January 25, when a dam at Vale's Vale mining complex in the city of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais, collapsed, causing an avalanche of mud and mineral waste that buried everything what was in his path.

The Brumadinho disaster occurred just three years after the disaster in Mariana, a municipality also in the state of Minas Gerais, where mining company Samarco, controlled by Vale and BHP Billiton, broke several roadblocks. death and an unprecedented environmental tragedy.

(With EFE information)