The Bergamo Prosecutor’s Office has been analyzing the administration of the pandemic for 3 years within the spring of 2020. That space of Italy, within the Lombardy area, is taken into account the start of the outbreak within the West. It is looking for out why the high-risk space was not remoted earlier than regardless of information that was already worrying
The pandemic was not but thought-about an actual threat in lots of elements of Europe, nevertheless, in Codogno, within the Italian area of Lombardy, the primary instances appeared on February 21, 2020. That, which was later thought-about floor zero for the pandemic amongst European nations, left tragic photos akin to the military tanks that transported the our bodies to the morgue that amassed victims and victims a couple of weeks later. That place, which has change into one of many preludes to a world drawback, has been the topic of the biggest legal investigation to this point into the administration of the pandemic in Italy which, after three years of labor, has recognized these accountable for nationwide, native and regional administration at the moment.
Among them the Prime Minister at the moment Giuseppe Conte, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and the president of the Lombardy area Attilio Fontana -reelected regardless of these controversies within the latest regional elections-. In complete, there’s discuss of 19 individuals being investigated for crimes starting from pandemic negligence, to a number of involuntary murder and the seizure of public paperwork after analyzing the administration of that crucial second. The accusations of Conte and Speranza, for his or her prices, have but to be evaluated by the Court of Ministers for the ultimate accusation. Both have already declared their willingness to cooperate absolutely with justice.
“I’ve discovered from the press concerning the information relating to the investigation in Bergamo. I instantly anticipate my availability and collaboration with the Justice”, mentioned the chief of the M5S and former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who additionally says he’s calm and “has acted with the utmost dedication and full sense of duty”. In the identical manner, the previous Minister of Health Speranza has declared that he’s calm. “I’m very serene and certain that I’ve all the time acted with self-discipline and honor within the unique curiosity of the nation,” he advised reporters.
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In the subsequent 20 days, defensive studies and new paperwork offered can be reviewed and later, the Prosecutor’s Office, primarily based on these developments, can ask to file some accusations or ship them to trial. The total investigation has targeted on two particular information: the closure and reopening of the Alzano Lombardo Hospital, on February 23, 2020, after confirming the positivity of a number of sufferers in COVID-19 and never having decided the “pink zone”, probably the most restrictive within the safety measures in Italy at the moment, in the primary municipalities that represented the primary focus within the first week of March 2020.
For his half, the re-elected president of the Lombardy area, who managed these zero zones of the pandemic in 2020, Attilio Fontana, excludes that the tasks might be his regardless of being amongst these investigated as a result of, he declared, “I do not forget that on the subject of In a pandemic emergency, the competence is unique to the State based on the Constitution”. He thus justifies that the selections of that second responded to nationwide monitoring, and to not provisions of the areas themselves.
In the sector of investigation, calls, hundreds of paperwork, emails, messages have been analyzed and a whole lot of individuals have been heard concerning the occasions. Among all these assessments analyzed there’s additionally a big epidemiological research, delivered in January 2022, carried out by the microbiologist Andrea Crisanti, just lately elected as a parliamentarian by the PD after public relevance as an skilled in the course of the pandemic. Report that establishes that, with the information of that second, if the utmost restriction of the “pink zone” had been decreed, 4,148 deaths might have been averted. In brief, it analyzes why, regardless of realizing the alarming information, it was not determined to isolate these areas associated to the primary sources of contagion and what’s the chain of tasks.
The kinfolk of the individuals who died because of COVID thank the Prosecutor’s Office for sustaining the dedication to analyze throughout all this time what occurred in these crucial days that modified the world perpetually. “The last that means of this work is to have the ability to give individuals the opportunity of realizing what has occurred. To everybody, however particularly to the kinfolk of the hundreds of victims. We have illuminated a darkish interval, that of the primary months of administration of the pandemic, when the lives, these of the residents of Bergamo, vanished. The investigation exhibits the errors which have been made, a series of errors. Without these errors, we might not have had all these deaths,” Bergamo Chief Prosecutor Antonio Chiappani mentioned in an interview with the newspaper Repubblica.