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21 April 2020Blitz of the Guardia di Finanza at the Palazzolo Institute of the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, one of the shelters for the elderly in Milan that was targeted by magistrates investigating the boom in deaths that occurred in the RSA during the Coronavirus emergency. The Yellow Flame military , as reported, searches and acquisitions of documents useful for the development of the investigation are being carried out: especially ministerial and regional directives on the use of masks, gloves and other protective devices by healthcare personnel and organizational documents on the management of Covid patients. The leaders of the Don Gnocchi Foundation are investigated for culpable epidemic and manslaughter.

The Guardia di Finanza is also searching the headquarters of Ampast, the social cooperative whose nurses and health workers work at Don Gnocchi. The Prosecutor's investigation was the result of a complaint by 18 employees and collaborators of Ampast. Yesterday the news that they were suspended from work on the decision of the Foundation for having also disclosed the alleged offenses on a media level, which, they say, consisted in not being able to wear the masks "so as not to frighten the user"

The activities will go all day long (it is a matter of acquiring medical records, documentation and also computer communications, as happened in Trivulzio and other RSAs in recent days). The judicial police team of the department led by the assistant Tiziana Siciliano also participates. The Foundation has always reiterated that "as of February 24 and for the entire evolution of the emergency" "the greatest possible caution has been adopted, implementing the procedures and precautionary measures defined by ISS and WHO, including those concerning" protection.   

The file on Don Gnocchi (another twenty are those on the Milanese RSA and grow on the basis of continuous complaints) was the result of a complaint by some workers, assisted by the lawyer Romolo Reboa, who contested the top management of having kept "hidden many cases of workers infected by Covid 19, although they had been aware of them since at least March 10 "and of having" prevented workers from using masks in order not to frighten users ".

At the beginning of April the Don Gnocchi had a number of guests who died from March similar to that of the Trivulzio, that is about 140 dead. Complaints from family members also flowed into the file. Meanwhile, the Ampast cooperative has sent a disciplinary dispute with suspension to the workers who have reported Don Gnocchi. The foundation specifies "that it legitimately exercised its contractual right of 'dislike' towards the Ampast cooperative" because those workers "through the press and television, had expressed serious and slanderous judgments". In general, the prosecutor's investigations also aim to ascertain any irregularities in the work of the Lombardy Region and the Health Protection Agency, both in relation to the resolution of 8 March on the transfer of Covid patients to nursing homes and on the indications provided. structures on the risks of the epidemic.

Gallera: "Mistakes in RSA? The technicians will say it"
"We wanted to appoint an independent commission, just to clarify. We will technicians and will tell us how things went, what were the shortcomings, the difficulties and how to work on the future" So the Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region GiulioGallera replied to the question if he fears that there may have been errors in Lombardy by the directors of the rest home, the Ats or his department, in the light of the investigations of the judiciary on the management of Covid in Rsalombarde. "It seems to me a theme that concerns Italy and the world. It is clear that the elderly were the most exposed people and were overwhelmed by a wave that did not stop