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Mysterious and disturbing episode of Sunday night in Viale Regina Elena, in front of La Sapienza University. Unidentified people set fire to the door of the Higher Institute of Health with flammable liquid, causing limited damage to the structure also thanks to the intervention of a police patrol that was in transit and that extinguished the flames with an extinguisher supplied to the gazelle.Technicians from the Survey section of the Via In Selci Investigation Unit arrived at the site for an inspection.. On Monday morning, the investigators of the weapon could send a report on the incident to the Prosecutor’s Office and the opening of a file by the prosecutors with the direct participation of the Antiterrorist group is not excluded.
Acts of intimidation against the Istituto Superiore di Sanit are unacceptable. For Silvio Brusaferro and for all the women and men of the ISS, my full support and gratitude for the extraordinary work that is done every day in the service of the country.. The enemy is the virus. Not the ones who work to fight it. Thus, the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza in a post on Facebook, While on Twitter the Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies, Mariastella Gelmini, expressed solidarity with the women and men of the Istituto Superiore di Sanit, and with its president Silvio Brusaferro. We are confident that intimidation will in no way stop the precious work of a structure that works every day to lift the country out of the pandemic. And the Minister of Public Administrations Renato Brunetta defined the attack a cowardly and unacceptable intimidation against an institution at the forefront of the fight against Covid, expressing full solidarity with the women and men of the Higher Institute of Health and its president, Silvio Brusaferro, as well as for the head of the Ministry of Southern and Territorial Cohesion, Mara Carfagna, A cowardly and unacceptable act of intimidation was carried out against the ISS. The commitment and dedication that distinguish the work of President Brusaferro, of the women and men who work to protect Italians from Covid will not be affected. My solidarity with them.
In the evening, the CEO of the ISS, with CEO Andrea Piccioli, highlighted how the Institute, since the beginning of the pandemic, has worked tirelessly to provide maximum scientific support managing emergencies with the sole interest of protecting the health of all citizens and our communities. Therefore, we will continue to serve our country to overcome this pandemic together.
From the first investigations of the Arma investigators, the attack would have been committed at 8 pm. The images of the video surveillance system of the ISS complex, which is located a stone’s throw from the piazzale del Verano, are being examined. The flames developed suddenly, it is not ruled out that the attackers saw flammable liquid, perhaps gasoline, on the door before lighting the fire and leaving. It is not clear whether on foot or in a vehicle.
Up to this moment, no claim of the gesture has come, but a connection with the institute’s activity at the investigative level is not excluded. He has been involved in the main decisions on closures and colors in the regions for more than a year, which imply the closure of certain commercial activities, and in recent months also in the vaccination campaign. Hence the first investigations that do not exclude the action of a madman, but not even that organized by the marginal extremes of protest against the health policies adopted since 2020 with the daily collaboration of the ISS.
The damage is mainly concentrated in the lower part of the door, a sign that probably those who acted, taking advantage of the fact that at that time, on Sunday, Viale Regina Elena, not heavily traveled, passed in front of the building and spilled the contents, perhaps from a bottle, directly on the ground, next to the entrance to the ISS, before setting the liquid on fire. The police are analyzing the reasons for the gesture that could be related to the decision -also taken based on the considerations expressed by the institute on the rebound in infections- to put most of the regions in the red zone from tomorrow until April 6. , and among these also Lazio, with Rome.
The episode is monitored with special attention, because although the dynamics do not suggest an action carried out by professionals,however, it could be one of the first demonstrative gestures of protest against anti-Covid policies and measures. Already on New Year’s Eve, during the traditional salute to the patrols, the then police chief Franco Gabrielli, now undersecretary of the Prime Minister with responsibility for the country’s security, had warned about the risks associated with the social emergency during 2021. Concern rekindled in recent years days by the new police chief Lamberto Giannini in his inauguration speech and also by the Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese.
March 14, 2021 | 21:44
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