Calabria, Gratteri opens an investigation on the management of the Covid emergency in the Region. Former Commissioner Cotticelli on the indictment

After the controversy, the failure anti-covid piano and the third Health Commissioner in ten days, in Calabria the Catanzaro prosecutor led by Nicola Gratteri opened an investigation on the management of the health emergency in the Region. For now, the file does not have the hypothesis of crime and no suspects, but it already contains several documents available to researchers. Starting with those provided directly by the former commissioner Saverio Cotticelli, the general dismissed from his post after discovering before the Title V (Tai3) to be the one who has to implement the anti-Covid plan drawn up at the beginning of the summer. As he had already widely announced, Cotticelli went to the prosecution to provide all the documentation he has.

Meanwhile, Gratteri has already commissioned financial police collect all the necessary material to understand if there are responsibilities in the inclusion of Calabria in Red zone. A decision dictated above all by the situation in hospitals, a front in which little has been done in the face of the second wave of the coronavirus. At the investigators’ table there was also the complaint presented by local representatives from CGIL, CISL and UIL. A dossier that “reconstructs the entire sequence of measures adopted by the competent institutions and authorities (government, Calabria region, Commissioner ad acta for the deficit recovery plan) since the beginning of pandemic and recalls our interventions, the attempts at dialogue, the positions taken, the July 8 demonstration in front of the Citadel of the Calabria Region, the September 8 meeting with the Minister of Health and what we have implemented so far to highlight As the situation was falling and it was necessary to hire health personnel To fill too many gaps upgrade the beds in intensive care and in the wards, along with home care for Covid patients, shed light on worrisome delays in process swabs“.

The complaint also points to the alleged responsibilities of the ASL, two of which are in charge of suspects infiltrations of the ‘Ndrangheta. Trade unionists Angelo Sposato, Tonino Russo and Santo Biondo confirmed that “they met with the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, whom we thank, along with his collaborators, for his willingness, and they filed a complaint-complaint.” After the television interview with Cotticelli, in fact, in his opinion “it is necessary to shed light on responsibility, negligence and non-compliance that, added to the already serious criticalities of the regional health system, have plunged Calabria, in the middle of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, into a very worrying situation that seems to be a collapse step“.