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Relatives and relatives of the victims of the Corona virus in Italy announced that lawsuits have been filed against the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and the president of the Lombardy region for alleged “negligence” in handling the epidemic, according to the newspaper British The Guardian.
On Wednesday, a group of 500 families will file civil lawsuits with prosecutors in Bergamo, Lombardy province, which was hit hard during the first wave of the epidemic.
The families of the victims claim that the three leaders Giuseppe Conte, Roberto Speranza and Attilio Fontana, respectively, have contributed to the deaths of nearly 70,000 people infected with Corona in Italy.
The lawsuit centers on the authorities’ move to reopen a hospital in the city of Bergamo in Alzano Lombardo hours after the outbreak there on February 23, and the subsequent lack of immediate isolation from the city and the nearby city of Nimbro, a despite the advice of scientists in early March.
Crucial issues of legal action are the alleged absence of a national plan to combat the pandemic and the failure of regional authorities to implement a local plan that was supposed to be part of the national plan.
Attorney Consuelo Lucati, who is leading the case, is seeking compensation of 259,000 euros ($ 315,000) for each family. The legal movement is being led by members of the “We Well Report”, a group of relatives of victims that was formed last April.
So far, the group has filed 300 legal complaints detailing how some of the victims died to Bergamo prosecutors, who began an investigation into the authorities’ alleged negligence in June.
Lucati said that the legal complaints did not specify the crimes or the perpetrators, but that the investigations carried out in recent months “allowed us to establish clear responsibilities,” which led to a civil lawsuit.
He added that “the government and the region are responsible for violating the rules and neglecting duties. The law obliges Italy to develop an appropriate national plan and the regional authority to implement an appropriate regional plan.”
The lawyer claims that the Italian pandemic control plan was not only very out of date, but it was never tested to determine its effectiveness.
Italy was one of the first European countries affected by the epidemic, and its plan for the epidemic was revealed to date back to 2006.
Lucati claims that Lombardy, which endured the worst part of the epidemic, has a regional plan that has not been implemented, saying: “The citizens have given the state and the regional government the task of protecting their lives and they have not done so. “.
The lawyer, whose father died because of Corona, said that the goal is not financial compensation, but rather that the authorities take responsibility.
