Updating
The decision of the Évora Court of Appeal was announced this Tuesday. Six defendants had been acquitted in February of the crime of homicide by omission and violation of security rules.
O Court of Appeal of Évora ordered a repeat trial in the case of the collapse in Borba, which took place in 2018. The decision was announced this Tuesday.
The fateful afternoon of November 19, 2018
On the afternoon of November 19, 2018, a section of around 100 meters of EM 255, between Borba and Vila Viçosa, collapsed due to the slide of a large volume of rocks, marble blocks and earth into two quarries.
The accident caused death of two workers of a marble extraction company in the quarry that was active and three other men, occupants of two vehicles who were following the section of road that collapsed and fell into the water of the quarry with no activity.
