Brazil police charge ex-soccer club head over deadly fire

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RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police have charged the former president of the Flamingo soccer club with manslaughter for a fire that killed 10 teenage players in February.

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian police have charged the former president of the Flamingo soccer club with manslaughter for a fire that killed 10 teenage players in February.

An investigators report obtained by The Associated Press shows Eduardo Bandeira de Mello and seven others were charged over the fire at the club’s training facility.

Mello did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. The Rio de Janeiro-based team said it didn’t know of the charges.

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019 file photo, debris from a deadly fire at the Flamengo soccer club training complex litters the ground in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An investigators' report of the case obtained by The Associated Press on June 11, 2019 shows the former president of Brazilian soccer club, Eduardo Bandeira de Mello, and seven others were charged for the fire. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019 file photo, debris from a deadly fire at the Flamengo soccer club training complex litters the ground in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An investigators' report of the case obtained by The Associated Press on June 11, 2019 shows the former president of Brazilian soccer club, Eduardo Bandeira de Mello, and seven others were charged for the fire. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

The report signed by investigator Marcio Petra says Mello and a monitor “could and should have acted to avoid the result, which, by omission, transforms them into the perpetrators” of the fire.

Officials have not given an official cause for the blaze, but said they investigated the possibility an air conditioning unit caught fire after a power surge.

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