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On the one hand Ranieri War, in the other one Francesco Zambon. In the middle, the relatives of the victims, who ask for clarity if not justice, and the Bergamo prosecutor’s office. The game of the famous WHO report published on the site and then mysteriously disappeared continues to make Italy speak. Every day is now a new chapter. Yesterday Guerra, deputy director of the Organization and member of the CTS, went to Giletti to It’s not the sand to defend himself against the accusations of those who consider him the author of pressure to cancel a dossier that is too critical of the Italian management of the pandemic. The “Denunciaremos” Committee responded firmly today. And now there is an email, revealed by Agi, with the WHO that would have asked its officials “not to respond to the call” of the Bergamo prosecutors.
We started from the war. Yesterday the post of the expert of the Cts it was clear. First: the plan for pandemic influenza had to be “updated in 2018”, not when he was the head of the Prevention Department (“I just left a warning). Second:” They never took any reports from me, I have no authority on this, which is the responsibility of the Copenhagen office that decides on the merits. “Third: I have not threatened anyone with dismissal. On the contrary. Guerra claims to have tried to” save “the report when” I was asked to correct persistent imperfections “. But why ask to move the publication for two days?” I asked him to move it – he said – because a month before publication Zambon asked me to show the Minister the index and cover of the report and to have preliminary approval. , as is usually done. “
Too bad Sileri, vice minister of viale Lungotevere Ripa 1, learned of the existence of this document only in November. “My strong suggestion for my colleague was to inform the Minister that the report was about to come out – said Guerra – it was correct to inform him, certainly not to let him see it or correct it. The Minister never interfered. Zambon asked me to intervene. to expedite the authorization and only at that moment I am informed that there is a text. I suggest corrections and should inform the Minister. I even tried to save that report because they asked me to fix persistent blemishes. ” The presumed pressures and threats of dismissal should also be excluded, as reported in recent days by the WHO investigator from the Venice office, Zambon: “There are very strict protection procedures against personnel – Guerra explained – No one can threaten other. of dismissal unless an internal investigation is completed by independent bodies. So, if Zambon has felt threatened, and I do not understand how and why, he has the means to appeal, to activate an internal procedure. “Not only. Also about the content of the emails, some of which were disclosed by Report In recent days, Guerra has to say: “There are twenty emails before and twenty after with Zambon in addition to the acquaintance, all in an absolutely friendly, proactive and collaborative tone as always. At some point the colleague disappears from the radar and they are still wondering what it happened in the line of command that it has, which does not go through Geneva but goes directly to Copenhagen, which has led to these types of situations. ”In short: a defense in all areas.
The actions of Guerra da Giletti upset the Committee of the families of the victims. “THEThe deputy director of the WHO – they write in a statement – staged a shameful theatrical performance. He has a strong dialectical ability that puts him in a position to tell haunting stories. nonsense Without the interlocutor noticing and has been counting in the press, without contradiction, for a week. Among them, that someone accused him of having made the report written by Francesco Zambon disappear. It should be noted that no one has ever accused Ranieri Guerra of having made that report disappear, but of having exerted pressure to make it disappear due to a hypothetical conflict of interest and not to offend the sensitivity of the Minister of Health (as evidenced by the countless emails). of Report). “However, on the failure to update the pandemic plan, the Committee notes that WHO had” reversed the approach to the pandemic in 2013, with new ad interim, by virtue of the lessons learned from the H1N1 pandemic. Last but not least, we do not understand how you can insist on the fact that the plan for the influenza pandemic had to be updated only from 2018, forgetting about the EU Decision 1082 of 2013, which transforms the suggestions on the updates of the plan for the influenza pandemic in obligations of Law, according to the same National Prevention Plan 2014-2018 ”.
The clash, as mentioned, today is colored by a new chapter. There Bergamo prosecutorAs is known, after learning of the update of the pandemic plan, Guerra had invited the WHO investigators, authors of the missing report, to appear for an audition. But the WHO had indicated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that its officials enjoy diplomatic immunity. “Please do not respond to the call of the judicial police section of the Guardia di Finanza and send us the request received from the prosecutors without delay so that we can attach this request to our letter to the Prosecutor and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” he says the e-mail in possession of the AGI and that will be discussed tonight in the issuance of the ‘Report’. Signing the letter would be the head of the WHO legal office in Europe, Chantal Streijffert Garon. “It is important to note – he says – that there are several ongoing lawsuits related to COVID-19 and numerous parliamentary inquiries in which WHO is involved. We must be careful not to set a precedent or implicitly waive immunities when participating in interrogations. “The email is dated November 1, 2020. A letter considered” confidential, urgent and confidential. ” We know that you are part of the team that wrote the report. ‘An unprecedented challenge: Italy’s first response to Covid-19‘, which was coordinated by Francesco (Zambon, ed). We know that the Bergamo Prosecutor’s Office is conducting an investigation into the response of the Italian government in Covid-19. In this context, we inform you that the members of WHO and their advisers are protected by the Convention which provides for diplomatic immunity in the context of official functions performed on behalf of WHO. Therefore, members and advisers cannot be summoned by courts based on national jurisdiction unless the WHO waives privileges and immunities following a request through diplomatic channels involving the Minister of Foreign Affairs. ” Zambon, after three subpoenas, if he fails, said he wanted to waive immunity to provide his version to prosecutors in Bergamo.
