the Goal is about 20,000 tons arsenikrikt waste as the mining company Boliden sent to Chile in the mid-80s, and the damage the poisonous residues caused to the locals in the small town of Arica in northern Chile.
Boliden paid a local company to take care of waste, but the chilean company went bankrupt and it became a landscape. With time, the dried waste to a large dammhög. DN has in a previous report from the site reported about how unaware children playing on the avfallshögen in the year, and poisoned the clay used in house building in the vicinity.
residents have been affected by, inter alia, chronic cough, arthritis, cancer but also damage to the fetus – which they claim is because of poisoning from Boliden’s old waste.
the Mood, which went up in the Skellefteå district court in 2017, driven by the umbrella of Arica Victims representing the 796 affected. The district court acquitted the Boliden on the basis that the damage avfallsdumpningen contributed to it was not possible for Boliden to predict.
Arica Victims were not satisfied with the judgment and appealed the district court’s decision to free the Boliden from the claim of 130 million. On Tuesday, the negotiations were opened in the Court of appeal and is expected to last until the end of February.
” We welcome this trial. It is an opportunity for us to bring down the faktaresistens that has been on this issue for 20 years now, ” says Klas Nilsson, head of communications at Boliden.
residents in the area have become ill, but believe that it has other causes.
– People in Arica have suffered. It is not in dispute. But it is a poor area. We had of course desired that these homes have never been built there of course, but there is no connection between their situation and the exports made 30 years ago, says Klas Nilsson.
the DN has sought the law firm Carat representing the organization for the victims in the case.
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