The Italian judiciary archives the case against former Prime Minister Conte for the management of the pandemic

The Italian judiciary has filed a lawsuit today against former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his former head of health, Roberto Speranza. for managing both in the first moments of the coronavirus pandemicwhich caused about 188,000 deaths in the country.

Following a request from the Prosecutor’s Office of Brescia (Northern Italy), the Court agreed to release both politicians, who were under investigation for the crimes of serious criminal epidemic, multiple criminal murder and refusal to perform an official act, along with 17 other people. Moreover, That request of the Prosecutor’s Office caused the anger of the relatives of those who died from the coronavirus During that period, they launched a collective lawsuit.

“This is not justice. With this request, for the umpteenth time, the memory of our loved ones and their sacrifice has been betrayed., the Association “Sereniesempreuniti” stated in a press release. “For three years we fought to remember and get the truth. Now it will be up to the Court to judge: the matter is not closed, we believe in our conscience about what happened, because covid-19 was not a tsunami as they want us to believe, many deaths should have been avoided and someone is responsible for that,” he added.

Last March, an investigation conducted by prosecutors and leaked to the media found that the early establishment of a “red zone” or isolation at the end of February 2020 in the Seriana Valley (northern Italy) would have prevented the deaths of more than 4,000 people. A few weeks later, Conte and Speranza appeared before a court in Brescia to recount the decisions they made at the beginning of the pandemic, when Italy became the first source of infection in Europe.

former prime minister “Illuminated and reconstructed everything that happened from February 26 to March 6, 2020”his lawyer Caterina Malavenda explained to the media at the time, while Speranza said that the pandemic plan they had was “ineffective” and that “everything was done to protect the health of Italians, strictly following the indications of the scientific committee of experts.” “

The prosecutor’s office in Bergamo (northern Italy) opened an investigation against Conte, Speranza and 17 other local defendants to try to determine whether there was any political accountability in the early days of the pandemicwhich particularly affected the Lombardy area.

The case was then transferred to Brescia, where the then leaders testified. Italy detected the first outbreak of the coronavirus in the Lombard town of Codogno on February 20, 2020, although the World Health Organization did not declare the pandemic until March 11.

This made Italy the first epicenter of the infection in the West, which forced Conte to order a shutdown initially in ten municipalities around Codogno with a population of 47,000, on February 22 of that year, and throughout the country on the following March 9. The researchers questioned the lack of an updated plan for the pandemic, but above all the decision not to close the Val Seriana industrial area as a “red zone” from the start, especially the towns of Nembro and Alzano, very close to the epicenter.