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According to the same source, on 1 December 2014, the information was sent by e-mail to the government of the time (PSD / CDS-PP) by the services of the Regional Directorate of the Economy (ERD) of the time, after a meeting held a few days earlier in the municipality of Alentejo.
The document, referring to the meeting held within the local authority, was sent by the last regional director of the Alentejo Economy, João Filipe Jesus, to the secretary's office of the 39 State energy at the time, Artur Trindade, and the Directorate General of Energy and Geology (DGEG), said the source.
This information, the source added, also included a "22-page" document describing the "dangers" on this road and including photographs, which had already been presented at the meeting held in the chamber.
These procedures, he told Lusa, the source of the process, were triggered at a time when regional economic guidelines were already on the brink of extinction and mergers with several agencies, including the DGEG.
According to the source, at the meeting convened and organized by the DRE of then in Câmara de Borba, the services indicated the dangers on the road 255 between this chief town and Vila Viçosa, in particular between kilometers 1, 3 and 1.9.
According to the source of the regional services of the Ministry of the Economy of the time, the meeting, which was held on November 20, 2014, brought together career entrepreneurs from both municipalities, as well as representatives from the city.
The warnings issued by the ERD to the camera on the highway 255 "echoed" at the meeting of the Borba Municipal Assembly held on December 27, 2014, according to the respective minutes, available at site from the municipality and consulted by Lusa.
António Anselmo, elected by an independent movement, questioned by MP Celso Ramalho (PS), confessed that "a few months ago, he had been informed" by some marketers "that a" study "of DRE indicated that "the road was in danger", then that "all the municipal council" of the municipality had met elements of this organ, after having "explained the subject".
The mayor, calling for "a little common sense in these situations," recalled that it was "a problem" that had been dragging on since "10 years ago" and asked: "Now, will he fall?"
"The road will be cleared only if it is in danger," he said at the time, admitting that if the camera had "concrete information from technicians about the real danger," it could "limit heavy traffic" on the road, but the question should be "studied with great caution" and based on "very great technical facts".
António Anselmo expressed his intention to mark an "explanatory conference on the situation" in Cineteatro in January 2015, with the DRE, the sector entrepreneurs and other interested parties, but this has not been done.
Councilors and MPs, even from other parties, subscribed to the need for a more detailed analysis of the issue. Even the former mayor and now Socialist Municipal MP Angelo de Sá recalled that "this subject of the road" was "in the air for at least 16 years", according to the minutes of the Municipal Assembly.
"It is obvious that the issue here is not security, (…) economic interests," admitted Angelo de Sá in a citation of the incomplete document, adding to the existence of D & C. "A small break in a career". .
The landslide of a large amount of land on Highway 255 resulted in the relocation of a significant amount of rock, block of marble and land to two quarries abutting on the 19th, causing the death of two workers. a marble mining company – whose bodies have already been found – and at least three missing persons, who climbed into two cars.
The public prosecutor opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the accident. This investigation is led by Evora's Department of Investigation and Criminal Enforcement (DIAP). Two teams of the judicial police are investigating.
The government has requested an urgent inspection of the authorization, operation, supervision and suspension of quarry operations located in the Borba region.
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