(ANSA) - SAN PAOLO, 11 JUN - The mining giant Vale was sentenced to pay one million reais of moral damages for each of its employees who died in the collapse of the Brumadinho dam, which took place in January 2019 in the Corregodo Feijao mine, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The imports will have to go to their victims and their heirs.
The decision was taken as part of a public civil action filed in January by the Metabase Brumadinho union.
This is an unprecedented sentence in the cause of the tragedy. Until now, justice, in various other processes, had stipulated values to repair the moral damages caused only to the relatives of the deceased.
In 49 pages, Judge Viviane Celia Correa, of the Regional Labor Tribunal, acknowledged that the victims themselves have also suffered moral damage that must be compensated.
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