Complaint in the Supreme against the Government on behalf of more than 3,000 families killed by Covid-19

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Eleven lawyers have filed a complaint against the Prime Minister and the 22 ministers on behalf of 3,268 families who have lost one of their members to the coronavirus on Monday at the Supreme Court . The complaint attributes to the members of the Executive a crime of reckless homicide, punished with prison.

The complaint highlights that the news of the new virus spread in December and that at the end of February "32 cases of contagion had already been detected in Spain, without the Government having adopted any preventive measure, for more than a month since it had knowledge of the health emergency declared by the WHO and, rather to the contrary, denying its spread in Spain ".

"In these circumstances," the letter continues, "and without the Spanish Government adopting any containment measure, at the end of February and the first week of March, a multitude of rallies and demonstrations were held, and citizen life continued regularly, without that the vast majority of Spanish citizens were aware of the risk they were running, something that the Government did know, but apparently it decided to put their interests above the health of the people. " And he cites meetings such as agrarian protests, feminist 8-M protests, the massive Vox event in Madrid, etc.

Government documentation

The letter highlights that the reports of the European authorities warned that measures had to be taken and that the WHO declared the pandemic before the Government turned to the state of alarm.

The complaint asks the Supreme Court, before which all members of the Government are appraised, to demand from the Executive the official information on the epidemic that it had, as well as health data on its evolution in Spain.

The 11 signatory attorneys state that as of this Monday "there are 3,268 people, whose families have lost 3,274 relatives as a result of the Sars-Cov-2 epidemic," who have been entrusted with the filing of this complaint, although for now they have provided complete documentation of just over a hundred. The delay with the rest, as they explain, is due to the delay in obtaining documentation (mainly, death certificates that the records whose delivery to families is delayed) and the difficulty of doing notarial procedures in the confinement.

One of the lawyers signing the complaint, Emilia Zaballos , explains that contact with the families has been managed through the Zaballos Foundation that she chairs, and a website created for this purpose ( despues.info ). Another lawyer, Alberto de Enrique Arnau , explains that behind the signatories, among which is, there is a team of 80 volunteer lawyers who collaborate in the management of the matter.

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• Infectious diseases
• Coronavirus
• Covid 19

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