Representatives of the mining company Vale tried to discredit a lawsuit in the Netherlands about the one in 2015, arguing that eight affected affected in the action would have died before the breakdown of the Fundão dam, information coupled with videos and photos for the defense of the affected.
In a court hearing on Monday (14), the mining company Vale said in its allegations that there was inconsistencies in the data of 2,100 authors, including eight that the company says they would have died before the dam in the city of Minas Gerais break.
One of the victims “dead” would be retired Tereza Silva Camargo, 66, resident of Mucuri (BA). She sent a video saying she is alive to the Pogust Goodhead and Lemstra Van der Korst offices, who provide legal advice in the action.
“I’m very alive. It’s not right, because the mining company claimed to court I’m dead,” he said. “I am today harmed by mud, because even the mineral water we have to buy to drink. I am not fishing, because the fish are contaminated,” he said.
According to the two offices, of the eight names cited by Vale, four are still alive today, including Tereza, and four others died after the tragedy and are represented by family members.
Vale and Samarco, controlled by the Brazilian company along with Anglo-Australian BHP, are being sued in the Netherlands by the Stiching Foundation Actions of Rio Doce, which represents about 75,000 affected that seek compensation in the District Court of Amsterdam for the damage suffered in the disaster.
The action was filed in 2024 and includes individuals, companies, religious institutions, municipalities, indigenous and quilombola communities. Another 170,000 affected expressed interest in joining the Dutch court proceeding.
This process is not related to the BHP as a defendant and whose value can reach R $ 260 billion.
Pogust Goodhead states that he and Lemstra Van der Korst “countered alleged inaccuracies in the defendants’ information, such as the one who stated that eight affected would have died before the dam ruptured.”
Pogust also argues that Vale and Samarco played a central role in making global profits of the mine operated by Samarco. “The Dutch subsidiary of Samarco was responsible for the management, marketing and distribution of iron ore produced in Brazil, while Vale SA contributed directly to damage by discarding excessive amounts of mining tailings in the dam before collapse,” the office says.
The sought compensation is about 3 billion euros (about $ 20 billion).
Sought, Vale stated that “it manifests itself in the case file, which is the competent forum to consider the demand.”
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