Pandemic plan, what magistrates and Guardia di Finanza are looking for
The latest moves by the Bergamo Public Prosecutor's Office and the Guardia di Finanza on the case of the old pandemic plan. Siegfried Ranucci's post (Report presenter) and the Agi point
Post by Siegfried Ranucci , presenter of Report (Rai3):
This morning around 9:30 the Guardia di Finanza presented itself at the Roman offices of the Ministry of Health in Trastevere and at the EUR on a mandate from the Bergamo Public Prosecutor's Office to acquire all the documentation from 2006 to today on the failure to update the pandemic plan and on its application at the start of the first Covid-19 wave.
Access is also underway to the offices of Claudio D'Amario, now in the Abruzzo Health Department but Director of National Prevention at the beginning of the epidemic, and of the ASST in Bergamo. The hypotheses of crime are culpable and false epidemic.
In conjunction with the summons to the Public Prosecutor's Office of numerous managers of the Ministry and of Minister Speranza himself, which took place in recent days, signs of nervousness circulated in Lungotevere Ripa: some observers read the ministerial indication of 2009 as the first update date of the pandemic plan, leaked with a confidential draft, as a way of unloading the responsibilities on Ranieri Guerra, former DG Prevention and now number two of the WHO.
In turn, Ranieri Guerra had told AGI that the government already had an anti-Covid Plan available in the early months of 2020, denying the CTS which had spoken of simple scenarios.
Internal sources tell of a frenetic activity during the Christmas holidays to draft a new pandemic plan.
The acquisition of internal and confidential documents could lead to a turning point in the investigation and shed light on what happened in the first weeks of 2020, nailing those responsible for any shortcomings.
Report will return to the story of the pandemic plan and the contradictions of the WHO in the January 25 episode.
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THE POINT OF THE AGI:
With the acquisitions and seizures, especially of IT material, at the Ministry of Health, the Istituto Superiore della Sanita ', in the Lombardy Region and in the Ats of Milan and Bergamo, the Prosecutor wants to reconstruct whether there were gaps such as to configure the hypothesis of omission in official documents in relation to the pandemic plan and its 'application' in the local area
Activities of the Guardia di Finanza are also underway in the Asst di Seriate on which the Alzano Lombardo hospital depends, closed and reopened after 3 hours on 23 February. To consider, in the case of the omission, the territorial jurisdiction that could move to Rome at least as regards the alleged failure to update the national plan of 2006. According to what reported to the AGI from investigative sources, decisive for triggering the interest on the subject by the pool led by the prosecutor Antonio Chiappani were the statements made to Report and then to other newspapers by Francesco Zambon, the WHO official who denounced the number two of the Organization, Ranieri Guerra, accusing him of having tried to force him to postpone the plan date to 2017 to make it look up to date.
An attempt carried out, this is the idea of Zambon that has been heard by the prosecutors as well as Guerra, to protect himself since the latter was director of Prevention at the Ministry of Health in the years of failure to update. Today's acquisitions are explained by the convocation for January 20 of 4 senior managers of the Ministry: the current director general Giuseppe Ruocco, his predecessor Claudio D'Amario, and two other managers involved in the preparation of the plan, Francesco Maraglino and Anna Caragha. The GDF has entered all their offices. According to the reconstruction of the Prosecutor's Office, the WHO alert of January 5 and the declaration of the end of January on the pandemic should have triggered the application of the phases following the 3 of the pandemic plan.
The investigators want to understand if the Region and the Ats have implemented the general indications in the detailed plans, as they should have done, and, among other things, why the antivirals provided for by the plan were in a Ministry depot near Rome in degraded conditions. Guerra had assured prosecutors during his testimony that the stocks of antivirals were ready.
The existence of a detailed plan, reasoning in the Prosecutor's Office, could have led to a triage in the Alzano hospital where instead 'clean' and 'dirty' patients mixed up, triggering a fuse that would then give rise to the outbreak in the most ' folded by Covid.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/piano-pandemico-che-cosa-cercano-magistrati-e-guardia-di-finanza/ on Thu, 14 Jan 2021 15:07:46 +0000.