When the coronavirus hit Europe with full force, the images from northern Italy shocked the world. Bergamo was particularly hard hit: coffins with Covid 19 dead were piled into military trucks driving through the village, hospitals were completely overloaded, churches had to serve as mortuaries. Now the city’s prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and former Health Minister Roberto Speranza. It concerns the accusation of negligence and incompetence in dealing with the first phase of the corona pandemic.
Investigations were launched against about 20 people, including Lombard President Attilio Fontana, former Lombard health evaluator Giulio Gallera, and acting president of the Supreme Health Institute Silvio Brusaferro.
No shielding of heavily affected areas
Prosecutors’ investigations center on the possible failure of the government not to close off particularly affected areas in the province of Bergamo as so-called red zones in March 2020 to contain the spread of the virus, researchers said. With more than 185,000 deaths from the coronavirus, Italy is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the world.
The inquiry was launched nearly three years ago after more than 200 complaints were filed against the Conte government (2018-2021) by relatives of those who died of Covid-19. Conte agreed to cooperate with the judiciary to clear up the allegations against him. He had always acted “with the utmost commitment and a full sense of responsibility in the interests of the Italians,” the press release said.
Source: Krone
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