There are two open cases in the Federal Justice of Tucumán, while in the neighboring province they are taking measures to find out what happened.
Last week a video set off alarms again in the south of the province, showing a large number of dead fish in the riverbed. dead riveran arm of Sali River which leads to The Frontin the zone of Los Britos Bay.
For this reason, the federal prosecutor Gustavo Gomez He confirmed that he acted ex officio and opened a criminal case for environmental crimes in the south of the province. “Given the progress of the sugar harvest, I feel obliged to let the owners of the sugar mills know that throwing waste (such as vinasse) into the riverbeds is a crime provided for by articles 55 and 56 of the Law 24.05”Gómez explained to eltucumano.com.
After the video of the fishermen, the Secretary of Production, Eduardo Castro He ordered the Environment staff to investigate the problem, so samples were taken to be analyzed by specialists from the Lillo Foundation. So far the results of the study they carried out have not been revealed.
As reported by La Gaceta, from the Ombudsman of Santiago del Estero, Lionel Suarez, ordered to perform the same task. According to the newspaper “El Liberal”, specialists did not find signs of fish mortality in the lake, but they did in the bed of the Muerto River. Although they did not have the final results, they did highlight that field studies revealed that the water did not have oxygen.
Suárez also confirmed that with the Santiago State Prosecutor, Raul Abate, decided to file a complaint with federal justice. This is the second presentation of the people from Santiago in six months. The previous one was in November of last year due to a death recorded in El Frontal. The details of that case were never known.
On the other hand, judicial sources indicated that a citizen had filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office that leads Carlos Brito. Your pair Agustín Chit (who was surrogate) took the first steps. He ordered federal forces to locate the site of the disaster so that they could take water samples and carry out the pertinent studies. He also informed federal judge Marcos Díaz Vélez of the situation.
In the coming days it will be decided who will investigate the case due to a question of jurisdiction. It will not be the first time that a situation of these characteristics arises.
The officials asked specialists from the Miguel Lillo Foundation to accompany them to take the samples and analyze what the causes had been. The professionals confirmed yesterday that the results of the studies will be ready next Wednesday or Thursday.
However, preliminary reports confirm that the fish mortality was caused by pollution and not by natural causes.
It was also reported that a delegation of Production officials and specialists will travel to Santiago on Tuesday to meet with their peers. In principle, the meeting would not only serve to make known their impression of what happened, but would also propose working together to control the Tucumán industries.
