Umweltverbrechen multinationaler Konzerne - Greenpeace

continue the development of the Los Frailes mine after October
2001. In September 2001, Boliden closed the Los Frailes mine and
425 employees were dismissed.
Legal outcome The case was opened in a little court in San Lucar la Mayor, but did
not have the human and other resources necessary for this case.
Two and a half years after the accident and thousands of pages of
legal proceedings later, the case failed. The court did not present an
oral judgement.
Final Greenpeace
statement
In December 2000, Judge Celia Belhadj-Ben Gomez from the court
of the Sevilian locality of San Lucar la Mayor ruled there are no
indications of penal responsibility in the tailings dam failure. In
November 2001, the Regional Court of Sevilla confirmed this
decision. In February 2002, an environmental group decided to bring
the case of legal responsibility for the tailings dam failure before the
Constitutional Court.
This case clearly demonstrates that a global instrument on corporate
accountability is needed because many governments of countries
with social and economic problems. These countries have
deficiencies in their environmental laws that carry exemptions that
permit companies to be acquitted for environmental crimes.
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