“I have received monetary pressure not to speak”. Word of Zambon (ex WHO)

13 May 20213 years ago babelfish

All the new accusations of the former WHO official, Francesco Zambon, author of the book "Il Pesce piccolo" (Feltrinelli)

It was not China that silenced the WHO report on managing the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is what Francesco Zambon clearly said today in an interview with La Verità and during the Omnibus broadcast on La7

Today his book, “ Il Pesce piccolo ” published by Feltrinelli, is out, in which he tells his version of the facts on the concealment of a report that highlighted all the Italian failures in the management of the first phase of the pandemic. In recent days, the hypothesis has been made clear that it was pressure from the Chinese government that wanted to see that report canceled. Things did not turn out quite this way.

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China's concerns and the withdrawal of the report

The report was withdrawn from publication by Zambon himself but only to make a correction to a box on China. “ It was the WHO office in Beijing that called me to ask me to correct that box – says Zambon to Francesco Borgonovo of the newspaper La Verità -. But that fix is by no means the reason the report disappeared. The "things to fix" were other. I withdrew the report to make corrections on China which would take me a couple of hours. But after 24 minutes I received an email from WHO saying that I no longer had the power to put it back online. They told me that my superior Hans Kluge had the power to republish it ”. China, as Zambon himself says, was concerned about the chronology of events because the first human-to-human transmission is dated January 21, 2020, while the WHO report referred to a previous infection. Suffice it to say that Taiwan had suggested that the human-to-human transmission took place on December 31, 2019, but was not heard. ( here the deepening of Start on the theme )

What Zambon said

In Zambon's book there is a chapter entitled " It Wasn't China ". But if it wasn't China who benefited from the pressure Zambon was subjected to? “China 's was a pretext , an attempt to mislead – continues Francesco Zambon to Omnibus -. In that chapter I say that it was China that asked for the report to be withdrawn for correction. But that's not why the relationship disappeared. We must go and find the reason in the pressures that have come from the Italian government . There is a message from Zaccardi (head of the cabinet of the Minister of Health) that says "Let's see if we can kill the report". Or in the message from the European Director General Hans Kluge who says that Minister Speranza was very angry. We are interested in the irritation of the ministers or we want to go a little further ”. Furthermore, the cancellation of that relationship was intended to protect those who held top positions in the organization. “The person to be protected was Ranieri Guerra – Zambon underlines to Omnibus – but then many others joined. What emerged from the investigations of the judiciary, with the chats between Ranieri Guerra , Brusaferro and Minister Speranza, defines a broad spectrum of personal interests ”.

"WHO is not an independent body"

“What really happened is that there was a conflict of interest – adds the former WHO official to Omnibus -. The small fish at the beginning of the story is me but then I realized that we are all small fish: me, Ranieri Guerra , the minister Speranza , the director Tedros . We are all more or less small cogs of a bigger machine ”. The largest machine is the WHO, an international body which, probably wrongly, is considered independent. “ The WHO is not an independent body – continues Zambon, responding to Gaia Tortora, today's presenter of the broadcast of La7, Omnibus -. At the moment it is not. I have been internally criticized by former employees who have told me that I fight on the basis of principles and ideals. Yes, of course, I am inspired by the WHO constitution, to safeguard the health of all citizens. And it must be an organization immune to any internal influence . Thus it was born, and it is a dream of independence. But a compromise must be reached between the dream and what it is now ”.

WHO's pressure on Zambon

Personal history and Zambon's book paint a decidedly disheartening picture of WHO. What should be a supranational body, on the other hand, seems strongly influenced by government interests. "I received pressure before I left WHO – continues Zambon to La7 – monetary pressure to prevent me from speaking , and that was the straw that broke the camel's back".

The mystery of the origin of the virus according to Zambon

In the interview with La Verità Zambon also returns to talk about the uncertainties about the origin of the virus. “In the WHO report there are four hypotheses and that of the laboratory origin is presented as highly improbable – he tells Borgonovo -. But it is all to be questioned because whoever made the report did not have access to sufficient information ”. Among other things, "it is the WHO report itself that cites the move of one of the maximum security laboratories in Wuhan : it explicitly says that no accidents have occurred, but the mere fact that it mentions it is interesting and deserves further information". This took place on 12 December 2019. “I am not referring to the artificial nature or a possible war use of the virus, this is not – concludes Zambon -. But that the virus came out of a laboratory by mistake is certainly possible ”.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/ho-ricevuto-pressioni-monetarie-per-non-parlare-parola-di-zambon-ex-oms/ on Thu, 13 May 2021 12:29:35 +0000.