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“I waive diplomatic immunity.” Thus began, the other day, the interrogation before the Bergamo prosecutors of Francesco Zambon, the Venetian researcher who authored the WHO report – funded by Kuwait – who rejected for the last time without appeal the Italian management of the first pandemic wave. So much so that on May 11 the report had disappeared, which put the executive in a bad light and threatened to undermine his relations with the international organization. The reason is revealed by some emails – already at the prosecutors’ table – that Zambon would have received from number two Oms Ranieri Guerra, former right hand of the Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin.
“A conspiracy between the WHO and the Italian government”, as the British newspaper The Guardian wrote? That is what they asked Zambon, who with the simple phrase “I renounce diplomatic immunity” has also cleared up the mess in diplomatic-judicial sauce that also involved Health Ministers Roberto Speranza and Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio. Yes, because the WHO had put its ok (it never came) as an indispensable condition for the interrogation. Convincing the Venetian researcher to come forward would have been – ironically – the “nod” from Ranieri Guerra himself, who wrote on Facebook a few days ago: “Researchers (WHO, ed) have a duty to do so (testify, ed.) Why don’t you give up your immunity and leave? It is not ruled out that, following Zambon’s example, the other ten WHO researchers may also offer their contribution to the research in the coming days.
The interrogation report has been classified, but from what appears from some sources in more than one circumstance, Guerra’s version and Zambon’s version would not coincide. And it is plausible to think that the WHO number two in the next few days could be heard again by the Bergamo Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the culprit epidemic. What prosecutors want to understand is simple: was Italy prepared to handle a pandemic? Not according to the prosecutor: “There was a lot of improvisation,” Bergamo prosecutor Antonio Chiappani told Corriere della Sera. An impression that was also confirmed during Zambon’s interrogation. For prosecutors, the Italian plan for the pandemic was stopped in 2006 and would never be updated, not even in 2016, as Guerra had told investigators. At the center of the interrogation, which lasted a few hours, in addition to the infamous ghost report of the WHO (found thanks to the complaint committee of Noi, which represents the relatives of the victims of the Covid in the Bergamo area and presented to the Prosecutor’s Office) , there would also be an internal document to the Ministry of Health. of September 15, 2017, signed by Guerra, in which the outgoing director general leaves a memorandum to the minister through the chief of staff, in which he recommends the preparation of a “new national plan for preparedness and response to a pandemic of influenza “, as requested by the WHO.
A document that partially denies the reconstruction made by Guerra, who certainly did not waive diplomatic immunity, to the investigative team headed by prosecutor Chiappani, who also wants to see clearly in the so-called GHS Index procedure, a self-assessment report of resources, infrastructure, policies and procedures, trained and experienced personnel that a public health system must call upon during a health emergency. The years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 are missing, while in 2016 the “report card” of the Ministry of Health would have placed (unfairly, in light of the WHO report) Italy at level 4, together with Switzerland and all the advanced of the world. Who decided? And on what basis?
