Sardinian nightclubs case, a member of the CTS resigns: “There is no more trust”



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The case of open nightclubs in Sardinia is its first “victim”. The epidemiologist at the University of Sassari, Giovanni Sotgiu, has resigned from Technical scientific committee. In an interview with the newspaper L’Unione Sarda, the teacher explained that “it failed the relationship of trust in light of the notorious events that are being talked about in the press these days ”. In the Committee, therefore, it remains only Stefano Vella, who in his favorable opinion of the ordinance to keep the discos open in August had also mentioned Professor Sotgiu, only to later say that he had not heard from him. “He was absolutely against opening the premises. – He says in the interview – on August 6 we officially gave the negative opinion, as a Committee, I wrote it. On August 11, the councilor sent an email around 7:50 p.m., asking for another opinion on the ordinance they were preparing. Professor Vella (who later clarified everything) hhe also responded on my behalf, but hadn’t read the draft. We were all supposed to meet the next day to review it, but the order was signed by President Solinas a few hours later. Then when I saw the newspapers I was amazed, also because the ordinance said ‘after hearing the opinion of the Scientific Technical Committee’ “.

Sotgiu has already been heard by the police officers delegated by the Temple prosecutor’s office and by the police investigating on behalf of the Cagliari prosecutor’s office. On the one hand, the Gallura magistrates are trying to understand if the opening of the nightclubs could have influenced the epidemic in Sardinia, on the other hand, the colleagues from Cagliari are investigating the genesis of the Solinas ordinance, following the Report service on Rai3 . “We wrote clearly that we did not agree with the openings – explains Sotgiu in the interview – especially in small towns with an influx of tourists“And on why, once the discos were opened, the situation got out of control in Sardinia, he explains:”Because controls and sanctions were lacking. We were reopening, there was a general neglect, on the island there were even activities that advertised the meeting as an element of attraction, and hardly anyone checked that the rules were respected. As for a possible successor, the expert clarifies: “Even if you find a Nobel Prize if you don’t listen to him …”.

Vella also gave his version: “The decision is political, the train was running and at the last moment, as they sent me the order at the last moment, I said: if the clubs have to be opened, it is okay to open them with these rules, then I understand that these rules are broken, he explained in an interview that will be broadcast on Report. In the order it was written: “I heard the opinion of the CTS.” Where, by opinion, we refer to an email of a few lines sent by himself Vella at 21.28 on August 11 after receiving the order at 19.53.
“The mail – he specifies – is not the opinion of the Committee, it is my personal responsibility because others have not seen it, I am the only one who has read that ordinance but the position of the entire Scientific Technical Committee was against, and much less, we had said that discos are a very risky place because they have been all over the world, so it is incredible to think that Vella or Cucca or others could think that it is good to open them “. However, he adds, “from what I understand, there was some technical time to publish the ordinance, and at that moment I took my responsibility“.” They (the Region, ed) have tried, they wrote the ordinance expecting all of us to express ourselves. “



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