More than one hundred million euros for Covid victims. It is the compensation that the committee “We will denounce” calls on the government and the Lombardy Region, with the notification of a summons to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the President of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, “on behalf of some 500 families of the victims.” The very serious omissions of the Lombard regional public authorities and the central government authorities will be challenged in civil proceedings, beginning with the immediate reopening of the Alzano hospital on February 23 and the lack of timely closure of the Alzano and Nembro municipalities, which according to the committee prevented the national closure and therefore the very serious economic and social consequences of which we are only now beginning to see its effects ”. The 100 million euros requested will be divided into precise calculations for each of the families of the people who died as a result of the pandemic.

The institutions are criticized by the Committee for “the lack of a national plan against the pandemic and an updated regional plan and, therefore, of implementation, which would have allowed operational fluidity with a clear chain of command and would have ensured that that the Lombardy Region prepare adequate stocks of buffers, reagents and personal protective equipment during the first wave. ”

The judicial initiative of the Covid Victims Committee

“The Noi Complaint Committee has so far presented 300 complaints in criminal proceedings in which stories are told without ever identifying crimes or culprits. However, the investigative work carried out in recent months has allowed us to identify clear responsibilities also in the civil sphere, “says the committee’s lawyer, Consuelo Locati. ‘We will denounce’ there will be no civil action.

“We have always said that our objective would never be compensation but the truth. At the same time, we consider it appropriate to make available to our associates all the know-how of the team of our lawyers whom they can trust at their discretion ”, is the position of President Luca Fusco, who wants to underline how this legal action hides. there is “a clear political act”, which is an “attempt to draw a well-defined line between what is considered acceptable and what should never be acceptable in any way.” These complaints are our Christmas gift to those who should have and did not, while in Italy, on December 25, there will be 70,000 empty chairs. With proper planning, as the EU and WHO have asked time and again, we are sure there would have been much less. ” Among the documents deposited by the Committee, write theAnsaIn addition to the CTS minutes, there is the 2006 pandemic plan considered identical to the 2017 one, along with retired General Pierpaolo Lunelli’s study of pandemic plans and the now well-known report of WHO researchers in Venice, which disappeared from the site. . organization in one day.

The issue of the pandemic plan and the reports

The retired general this summer Pierpaolo lunelli he had published a dossier on Italy’s preparation for the epidemic. A 65-page report in which Lunelli, former director of the Nbc Joint Force School, for training on nuclear, chemical and bacteriological hazards, estimates that 10,000 of the more than 35,000 deaths in Italy so far could have been prevented if Italy would have had cars an updated pandemic plan. “The COVID-19 epidemic in Europe is a tragedy foretold for all. But for our country it has become a double disaster. Facing a pandemic without good plans, insufficient ICU skills and few stocks of health protective equipment is like driving a bus down a mountain road in the middle of a sudden heavy snowfall with no snow chains on board. Lunelli summarized in the report – This is how the Italian bus, which could not be stopped, went astray, harming us a lot in terms of victims and consequences in the economic fabric of those regions that contribute the most to the national GDP ”. According to Lunelli, Italy only had an “old and inadequate” plan.

Lunelli was heard on December 9 for five hours magistrates of the Bergamo Public Prosecutor’s Office investigating the management of the pandemic and potential liabilities. In his dossier (which is entitled “Assessment of the quality of Italian planning to cope with a pandemic and comparison with that of other countries”), Lunelli wrote: “It is since 2013 that the European states, and therefore Italy, They are legally obliged to keep planning for a pandemic constantly updated according to the guidelines of the WHO and the European Center for Disease Control. The national pandemic plan, on the other hand, has never been constantly updated since 2010, or perhaps even before ”.

The Bergamo prosecution investigation

The Prosecutor’s Office is working to clarify the pandemic plan (and its updates). The Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bergamo, Antonio Chiappani, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, confirmed that the latest Italian plan against the pandemic on the website of the Ministry of Health does not bear a signature or date but must be accredited in 2017, thanks to the reconstruction work of the researchers through documents and testimonies acquired in recent months, and in many places it appears to have been copied from 2006.

He was also heard at the Prosecutor’s Office Ranieri War, Deputy Director of WHO in Europe and from 2014 to 2017 Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, and the researcher Francesco Zambon. The latter works in the WHO office in Venice and, together with ten other colleagues, was one of the authors of a Report on the management of the first phase of the pandemic in Italy. The report was removed from the WHO website shortly after it was published on March 13, according to Report after receiving pressure from Italy. It was the We Denounce committee that discovered and brought the WHO report, published and then unpublished in 24 hours, to the Prosecutor’s Office.

“The Report – Zambon explained in an interview with guardian – did not criticize the Italian government, but highlighted the critical problems in the management of the pandemic, based on the premise of the old pandemic plan, which was only ‘reconfirmed’ and not updated in 2017. The team thoroughly reviewed this aspect and found that all the plans after 2006 had simply been copied and pasted, without changing a word or even a comma in the text. “The WHO, with regard to the deposition of the investigators who wrote the report in the Office of the Prosecutor, had raised the issue of diplomatic immunity, which Zambon has decided to give up to be heard by prosecutors and give their opinion. Zambon would have been pressured by Guerra to correct the report and specify that the Italian plan for the pandemic had been “updated” in 2017 and not just confirmed, War Pressures have always denied.