Overview
- The first-instance ruling by Judge Rafael Carvalho de Sá Roriz orders the teardown of Academia de Futebol 2 in the Parque Ecológico do Tietê, an area classified as permanent preservation.
- The sentence mandates demolition, soil de-impermeabilization and decompaction, and full ecological restoration within 180 days counted from the decision’s finality.
- A recovery project must be submitted for review and receive prior approval from the state biodiversity coordinator CBRN, Núcleo de Mogi das Cruzes.
- The court accepted the São Paulo prosecutor’s claims of environmental degradation and cited DAEE irregularities, including lack of a public bidding process and an erroneous drainage-channel classification.
- Palmeiras said it will appeal and argues it has recovered and maintained the site, notes a 2018 agreement with DAEE, and highlights investments in its 45,000 m² youth facility with five fields.