Widows of tragedy ask Chapecoense to remove photos of athletes from website and stadium

Chapecoense received at least four notifications, dated last Friday (4). Sent by relatives of the victims of the crash of the LaMia plane, the documents inform that the club must remove from its website “image, name and sporting nickname” of the players. And they communicate that the association must not use for any purpose the connection they had with the association.

The text sent to President Nei Maidana also requests that the images of the dead be erased from the walls of Arena Condá, “notably from the access tunnel to the changing rooms and the field”, and gives a deadline of 48 hours for compliance. Refusal “will give rise to the filing of appropriate legal measures”.

The notification is a consequence of Chapecoense’s default in a legal agreement made with the families in labor lawsuits and signed in July 2020. Because of the non-payment, Chapecoense’s CPI approved this Wednesday (9), the summons of President Nei Roque Mohr (known as Nei Maidana) and former president Plínio David de Nes Filho.

They are due to appear at the commission on the 17th.

Until earlier this week, Chapecoense had a section on its website called “Força Chape”, with photos of victims of the LaMia plane crash outside Medellín, Colombia, which killed 71 people in November 2016.

Last Tuesday (8), the page was removed from the air. According to the widows, the space was also used to raise donations for the reconstruction of the club.

THE leaf contacted Chapecoense on Tuesday morning. Until the publication of this text, there was no position on the matter from the board or president Nei Maidana.

The club had reached a collective agreement in the Labor Court regarding 26 actions by family members of victims of the accident. The supporter’s money was given as a guarantee of payment. It would be BRL 250,000 in the first 12 months, BRL 350,000 for the next 12 months and then BRL 250,000 until the debts are paid off.

From the end of 2021, some families stopped receiving. In January of this year, Chapecoense began to fully breach the agreement. A few weeks later, the Court granted a request for judicial recovery of the association, which had a project to become a joint-stock company approved by its Deliberative Council, but continues to be a sports association.

According to former president Gibson Sbeghen, the debt is around R$120 million.

“The disappointment with Chapecoense only increases. After the accident, the relationship was always horrible. And, finally, there is the judicial recovery. The biggest disappointment is with Nei Maidana, who carried my daughter in her arms and said that we were a family. I wouldn’t treat my family like that, but I hope his family doesn’t go through what I’m going through right now”, protests Patrícia Gimenez, widow of steering wheel Gimenez.

She was one of those who sent notification to the president. The others were Valdécia Borges de Morais Paiva, widow of midfielder Gil, Barbara Lima da Silva, daughter of striker Ailton Canela (document signed by her mother, Priscila Lima), and Girlene Dominues, widow of striker Bruno Rangel.

THE leafat the end of January, Chapecoense’s vice president of marketing, Alex Passos, explained that the financial situation was critical and that the resources of the supporters were what was left to keep football running.

“We don’t have resources. We are desperately trying to leave conditions so that the football team that represents the Chapecoense Football Association can play, because our product is football. If there is no football, we will have nothing else and no type of income”, he said. he.

In contact with family representatives and widows, leaders have asked for understanding and said that Chapecoense is also a victim in this whole situation.

“I was surprised by their attitude. [das familiares]. I was informed of the facts, but this only highlights the feeling of anguish and disapproval of the attitudes that Chapecoense has taken since the tragedy happened. It is of great concern to us because of all the widows and their family conditions. As we have no solution regarding insurance, we will have more families in situations of financial fragility”, says Marcel Camilo, lawyer for the families who sent the notifications.

It refers to the aircraft policy. Made by the Bolivian insurance company Bisa, it had Aon as its broker and Tokio Marine Kiln as the head of a group of 13 reinsurers, almost all multinationals. They refuse to pay the insurance because LaMia would have violated the terms of the insurance when flying to Colombia and was behind in installments.

This Wednesday, the summoning of a representative of Tokio Marine was also approved, as well as that of the president of Caixa Econômica Federal, Pedro Guimarães, and that of a representative of Petrobras. The two state-owned companies have contracts with the reinsurer involved with the LaMia policy.

In a decision of the US Court, the value of the case was set at US$ 844 million (R$ 4.4 billion in current values). Bisa no longer has an office in Brazil and has not commented on the matter. Aon claims to have done only the brokerage. Tokio Marine Kiln reports having created a humanitarian fund to assist families who wish to participate. But for that, they have to give up all legal cases related to the policy, in Brazil and abroad.