Ex-Mayor of the municipality of Anadia pronounced for pollution crime
Litério Mahmood, former President of the Board of Anadia, was pronounced for pollution crime in a process related to works in a forest area near the industrial zone of Alféloas, in the parish of Arcos, Anadia.According to explains the Quercus said in a statement, concerned are the interventions carried out by the local authority, in 2005, on 21 acres of rustic buildings that had acquired in Vale de Salgueiro, to create an industrial zone there. To date, these fields were inserted into the National ecological reserve (REN).At the end of that year, the own Quercus and several citizens brought a restraining order, the Administrative Court of Viseu, to cease the illegal works promoted by the Municipality, and the Court ordered the immediate suspension of these."In this process, it has been proven that the Board, through its President, ordered the grubbing up of tens of thousands of trees and the total destruction of existing vegetation cover, and the extraction of tens of tonnes of inert being, in its place, dumped tons of rubble," advances the Quercus."These actions eventually cause soil contamination and of groundwater in the region, classified as maximum infiltration area, and with potential implications for the consumption in the medium and long term," continues the NGO.After almost five years, in 2010, the same Court came to judge also upheld the main action subsequently taken by Quercus and several citizens against the municipality of Anadia and the then President, for gross violation of various laws of environmental nature, in particular the legal framework of the National ecological reserve, the framework law on the environment and the Municipal master plan of Anadia.The Court ordered the municipality to proceed to cleaning that area; withdraw all the rubble that had been buried in the area of REN and to develop all the necessary work for the correct drainage of the land. "This has not yet occurred," stresses the Quercus. "Soils and the waters of the lands concerned are still today permanently contaminated, since construction and demolition waste buried there were not removed with monitoring of the Ministry of environment and independent entities."The opening statement was required by Quercus, was Assistant in the process after local prosecutors have filed last year (seven years after the beginning of the investigation), a criminal investigation against the Mayor, for lack of evidence.Foto:  elcnjunior / Creative Commons
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