STJ orders the release of the employees arrested after the break-up of the Vale dam | Politics

According to the researchers, the professionals testified to the safety of the dam that broke, number 1 of the bean mine.

Firefighters work with machines and helicopters after the rain in Brumadinho

The decision of the sixth

Firefighters work with machines and helicopters after the rain in Brumadinho [titre]

Last Saturday (2), TÜV SÜD André engineers were appointed by TÜV SÜD André Ybaduda and Makoto Mamba, as well as employees of Vale Cesar Augusto Paulino Grandchamp (geologist), Ricardo de Oliveira (environmental manager) and Rodrigo Artur Gomes de Melo (executive director of the Vale complex in Paraopeba) were deprived of their liberty first in court

To date, the tragedy of Brumadinho has confirmed 134 deaths and 199 others are still missing [19659007] The day of arrest, Vale said, by a note, that "it cooperates fully with the authorities".

"Vale will continue to contribute to investigating the facts, as well as unconditional support to affected families," the company said.

Also for information, Tüv Süd Brasil, Dam Safety Analysis Officer, stated that "he will not comment at this time and provide all the information requested by the authorities ".

Nefi Cordeiro, President of the Sixth Clbad and Rapporteur for Applications for Freedom, stated that arrest warrants did not state whether officials and engineers had committed a wrongful act dams

"I see him with the utmost respect a prison for the result.A prison in which nothing indicates, even if it is a fault, if it was a negligence in the investigation, technical review, fraud, fraudulent behavior, "said the minister during his vote.

According to the Minister, temporary prisons are also not justified because there is no indication that officials and engineers make it difficult to collect documents.

"For criminal liability, the result is not sufficient to show that this technical opinion (dam report) was perhaps not the most accurate." It is necessary to indicate that this technical opinion was based on guilt or fraud, "he said.

According to the rapporteur, the testimonies provided by the respondents showed that they did not present any risk for the investigation of the dam rupture which justifies the maintenance of the prisons.

"This is not stated and I do not check for the existence of the risks required by law for a temporary arrest," Cordeiro said.

The rapporteur was accompanied by all the other clbadmates. According to Minister Antonio Saldanha Palheiro, Vale's engineers and employees pose no risk to the company.

"They are technicians, people of property, workers, they are not marginal, they are not career thieves, they are not people who represent a daily risk for society", a- he declared.

If they made a mistake, voluntary actions that generated this result will have to be carefully and thoroughly determined, and not in order to satisfy, a general outcry, "he added.

According to Minister Rogerio Schietti Cruz, the maintenance of the prison could involve the choice of "some culprits before this guilt is minimally proven."

"We do not make a criminal conviction, we need reasons for temporary arrest, "said the Minister.