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June 13, 2020"The issue is complex and will be investigated after the outcome of the reconstruction in fact." Thus the acting prosecutor of Bergamo Maria Cristina Rota limited herself to answering the question of whether, after the hearings of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and of the Ministers Speranza and Lamorgese on the failure to red zone in Nembro and Alzano, it is possible to configure criminal liability or if the choice of Palazzo Chigi is to be considered as a political and therefore unquestionable act.
So, according to the words of the Prosecutor Rota, what opens for Bergamo prosecutors will be a week of work to reconstruct, through the analysis of the statements collected, including that of the premier, and the study of the documentation acquired, the steps which in early March led to the creation of a red zone, not just Nembro and Alzano Lombardo anymore but all of Lombardy, then heavily hit by the Coronavirus. And all this to get to assess whether the decision of which the head of the government, heard yesterday by the magistrates at Palazzo Chigi, has assumed all responsibility, whether to be framed as an unquestionable political choice or as an administrative act that allows you to hypothesize a crime and responsibility.
From what has been known, before arriving to untie this node called "complex", there will be a preliminary work, perhaps also with other auditions of texts, which will take place by crossing statements made in the minutes by all the main protagonists of the story, by the exponents of the Government to those of the Region up to the representatives of the industrialists, with the documents in the deeds of the investigation, including those acquired during the Roman trip, and with the epidemiological data of those days in early March. Data, these, which should have already been entrusted, from what has been leaked, advice to an expert chosen by the investigators.
The mayor of Nembro: they had to do the red zone in late February. Da Conte coherent choice
"I believe that the red zone should have been established at the end of February. In March, when the Higher Institute of Health with a note considered that there were conditions for implementing restrictive measures such as in Codogno and in the Lodi area, the situation was already out of control. The epidemic was no longer confined in our two municipalities, but was already widespread and therefore the measure to be taken had to be more drastic ". Claudio Cancelli, the mayor of Nembro, the municipality that together with Alzano Lombardo is at the center of the question of the failure of the red zone in the Bergamo area, considers "consistent" the decision taken by Giuseppe Conte as the prime minister reconstructed yesterday to the magistrates of Bergamo that the they heard and how, he specifies, "I read in the press" . The first citizen states that his comments refer to what he read in the press and adds that that of the head of the government, who on 7 March decided to turn all of Lombardy into a red zone, "is an assumption of responsibility with respect to a choice which he considered the most consistent. "
Cancelli explains that in those days between the end of February and March, before the lockdown of the entire Lombardy region, "we as mayors did not have the data of the general epidemiological trend of the infections but only that of our municipalities. In my they indicated a decisive trend, but the regional framework escaped ". This is also because "one of the critical elements is that the prefecture never convened a table with us. If he did - he continues - we would have had a complete awareness of how the situation was evolving and what decisions were to be taken".
But when the ISS note was sent on March 6, "some of the mayors of neighboring countries also told me it was late because the numbers had grown too". So, if it was necessary to proceed with the 'belting' of the area, "it had to be done at the end of February. Then time was allowed to pass with the result that the intervention" on Nembro and Alzano "was no longer sufficient". Finally, Cancelli believes "it was a serious mistake" that committed by the Government and by the Lombardy Region: "They have not been able to overcome political alignments. There has been no choice of institutional cohesion on a problem that was not linked to individual parties, but it was transversal ".
Yesterday the hearing of Conte and ministers
The prime minister was listened to as an informed person on the facts for about 3 hours as part of the investigation into the failure of the red zone in Alzano Lombardo and Nembro. In Palazzo Chig, in addition to the prosecutor Rota, also the substitutes Paolo Mandurino, Silvia Marchina and Fabrizio Gaverini. Bergamo prosecutors also heard the ministers of the interior, Luciana Lamorgese and health, Roberto Speranza.
Conte: with pm clarified passages in the smallest details
With the Bergamo pm "I wanted to clarify all the passages in the smallest details". So Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, after today's hearing at Palazzo Chigi on the failure to establish the red areas of Nembro and Alzano Lombardo.
Conte: I would do it all again, I acted in science and conscience
The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in an interview with Repubblica explained that he did not fear "being investigated" at all and that he "acted in science and conscience. available to the magistrates to inform them about the circumstances of which they are aware, "says the premier about the possibility of being investigated after today's conversation with the prosecutors in the context of the investigation into the failure of the red zone in Alzano Lombardo and Nembro. "I would do everything I did because as I said I acted in science and consciousness".
The investigation
Bergamo prosecutors who investigate the management of the Coronavirus epidemic in Val Seriana and who have turned on a beacon on the failure to establish the red zone in Nembro and Alzano Lombardo, will have to determine whether to isolate the two municipalities, where from the end in February the number of infections was growing exponentially, it was a decision that the Lombardy Region could take autonomously or if it was a prerogative for Rome. And if the failure to isolate the area had effects on the number of subsequent deaths and the mortality rate recorded in the area.
Pm Bergamo: maximum collaboration between prime ministers and ministers
"The hearings were held in an atmosphere of maximum relaxation and maximum institutional collaboration". Bergamo prosecutor Maria Cristina Rota said in a statement after hearing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and ministers Roberto Speranza and Luciana Lamorgese at Palazzo Chigi as people informed about the facts.
You said on May 29 that the red zone was Rome's responsibility. Do you regret those statements? "No, I had declared that from the declarations we had in place there was that at the time. Today I have nothing more to add." The deputy prosecutor of Bergamo, Maria Cristina Rota, said this, responding to journalists outside Palazzo Chigi.