Uol Notícias: Volkswagen search repair support for repression during the dictatorship

Volkswagen search repair support for repression during the dictatorship 245
Content Estado in São Paulo 01/11 / 201509h11 text Listen
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Volkswagen is the first company to negotiate a judicial redress for funding or actively participated in the repression of political opposition and the labor movement during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Group headquarters official who was in Brazil this month at the request of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) said the "Estado de S. Paulo" the company seeking an agreement with the agency, which bases its action on the investigations made by the National Commission truth (CNV).
According to Manfred Grieger, director of the Historical Communications department of the Volkswagen Group, its intention to participate in the meeting in the MPF, held in São Paulo on the 14th, it was to contact victims of Brazil's military dictatorship and seek more information about the relationship between Volkswagen Brazil and Brazilian institutions that time.
"It was the beginning of a discussion on how to reach an agreement on this issue," Grieger said. "One idea is perhaps develop a concept of memorial together with other Brazilian institutions such as trade unions, and put it into practice. We want to continue discussions to explore the pros and cons about the next steps," he said by email , the director.
Since 2014 Grieger collects information and documents on allegations of support given by the automaker to the regime. Who met with him was the regional prosecutor for Citizens' Rights, the MPF in Sao Paulo, Pedro Antonio de Oliveira Machado.
"We want to make a TAC (Conduct Adjustment Term). The aim is that the money be deposited in the repair Diffuse Interests Fund or used for the construction of a memorial or museum about the period," confirmed Machado.
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In the hands of Machado and his colleagues from the MPF are gathered the documents for ten unions, associations, researchers, by former members of the CNV and former workers of Volkswagen persecuted by the military regime.
The papers were handed over to prosecutors in September. Through a representation, they asked for the opening of a public civil investigation in order to ascertaining that "as the objectively contributed to Volkswagen of Brazil to the achievement of human rights violations reported in the representation."
The union wanted even if the MPF ascertaining the degree of participation of the company's governing body on each violation, especially "the crimes of torture committed within its plants" and "collaboration with the state security agencies, military units and employers' unions. " Finally, the group asked that they be investigated "benefits obtained by the company on the grounds of complicity with the regime."
Among the documents submitted by the union are reports that the automaker donated equipment - such as Beetle models - for the Posting of Information Operations (DOI) of the 2nd Army. There are documents with the stamp of the Industrial Safety Department of the company who were sent to the Department of Political and Social Order of São Paulo (SP-DOPS) with details on the performance of workers, described as subversive, in demonstrations and strikes.
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There are still about 200 copies of "police reports" made by the security company and sent to Dops. In them there are reports of workers caught by the military police picketing that instead of being taken to the police station, were conducted by MP for the company's plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in the ABC, to be identified and questioned. There are still reports of beatings and torture of workers linked to Communist parties that took place within the company.
In addition to Machado and Grieger, trade unionists, researchers and some of the victims who gathered these roles also attended the meeting in the MPF headquarters. Germany also came to the meeting Joerg Kother, representative of the International Committee on Volkswagen workers.
"We want a repair is made. We do not seek individual agreements, but a solution that is collective," said Sebastião Lopes de Oliveira Neto, who led the working group on the repression of the workers and the trade union movement, the CNV. According to him, who heads the Exchange Institute, Studies and Information Research (IIEP), "had a very close relationship between the automaker and the security organs of repression of the military regime." The information is the newspaper "O Estado de S.Paulo."
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