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One could come to Italy soon class action for Covid victims. An investigation published in Der Spiegel highlights errors and omissions of Italian institutions in the context of the first wave of coronavirus.
In recent weeks on the Facebook page “Denunciamos”, which brings together almost 70 thousand subscribers, I relatives of Covid victims they publish posts in memory of their loved ones, in the days after the anniversary of their death. The images of the army trucks taking the corpses in Bergamo have remained in the memory of all. From March to May 2020, there were more than 30,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus, and now anger approaches pain.
Class action lawsuit against the Italian government for Covid victims
For the German magazine, there are many inconsistencies about those first terrible months of the pandemic. Months in which a feeling of national unity has also emerged, but in which we have accepted fragility of the health system.
More than 500 Italian families have come forward complaint against strangers. The files are in the Bergamo Prosecutor’s Office, who will soon have to decide whether and against whom to file a complaint.
The accusation is that the government led by the then Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, already questioned together with the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, reacted too late and badly to the pandemic. According to Der Spiegel, it could be the trial of the century. Lawyer Consuelo Locati, who lost his father and who is leading the class action lawsuit along with a team of 5 other lawyers, asks for 259,000 euros per relative.
The focus of the class action lawsuit is the WHO Spring 2020 report compiled by Francesco Zambon and immediately withdrawn, says the latter, under pressure from the Ministry of Health and the national leaders of the World Health Organization.
According to the reconstructions, arising from an email exchange between Zambon and the deputy director of OMS Italia Ranieri Guerra, the former was asked to retract some paragraphs to make it appear that the pandemic plan was updated at the time of the outbreak of the pandemic. There latest version of the plan, as it is known, dates back to 2006.
For Zambon now the professional situation has become “untenable”, and last week he announced his resignation. Locati’s team recovered, among other things, the missing WHO report.
