What happened was a crime!

* Denise Assis

M. Fabio Schvartsman took off the well-cut suits he had used in his office as president of the world's second-largest mining company, Vale, left his beard unturned, basic T-shirt, black, well suited to the moment you would face. He then went to Brumadinho, a municipality where the tragedy took place, swallowed about 300 of his employees, all of them related of course to a family, to another person or to another part of the country.

then posed for photos during an interview with a major newspaper. The photographer caprichou at the end, in which Fabio appears with the pleated face and the hair of the beard, already bleached, pushing skin. Slack? No. All calculated to combine with the text that says: "How can I say that we have learned (after the accident of Mariana) if such an accident had just occurred?" The text of course "The fact is that we do not know what happened and what it caused, but we will certainly discover ." (19459007). …) " I apologize to all affected people, to the whole Brazilian society, and I will say that we will not do everything in our power to deal with to this question of how it should be confronted . " It may be that you, in addition to your expensive meals and the position you occupy – although it is your duty and for which you receive a significant remuneration – you do not know it, but we know it. What happened was a crime. Liability negligence for an episode that can not be clbadified otherwise. Just that one. By stating that he will not do everything in his power to tackle the question of how to tackle it, he relies on his influence and on the certainty of impunity that has always surrounded people of its economic size, to simply bring to justice the charges against him. can be imputed to him. Sometimes they do not even target the CEO of the company. They stay there, diluted in a legal palaver that ends, as in Mariana, interrupted in garbage cans.

According to the National Water Agency (ANA), the country has 24 092 dams, which contrasts with the mud that ran fast in both cases: lives, plantations, animals, properties, etc. . Among these, according to a survey conducted two years ago, 42% have structures that operate without authorization, that is, irregularly to say the least. And, we know, at least 143 of them are under your responsibility, Mr. Fabio. You belong to Vale.

But you know what happened? Granted, his time was being counted on attempts to negotiate a relaxing environmental legislation, which, as we have recently read, is "too fine". Its concern was to increase its revenue growth from 5.1% in 2017 to 10.3% in the third quarter of 2018. 104,945 million tons were generated, of which 26 million were generated by Paraopeba. A jump. And do you know how much the capacity of the Brumadinho dam tailings site has been extended? Zero.

So, Mr. Fabio, are you honestly telling us that you do not know what happened? Because I tell you: profit in excess. Greed exacerbated. Do not worry about your country, the region where you operate your business, employees who promoted Vale's growth. With the lives of those who work there.

You ask us to forgive you. I give you a resounding "no". Enough to think that our memory, our indignation, descend downstream, with the mud that you throw in the face of society. We will not bury them in your excuses. Pay your bill, Mr. Fabio. * Journalist