Brescia prosecutors have asked for
the case against Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana, former
regional welfare councillor Giulio Gallera and 11 other people
under investigation in relation to the management of the early
stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the province of Bergamo in
February 2020 to be shelved, sources said on Wednesday.
The request has been filed with the Brescia ministers' tribunal,
which last month threw out the case against former premier
Giuseppe Conte and former health minister Roberto Speranza as
part of the same probe by Bergamo prosecutors into suspicions of
causing an epidemic and manslaughter amid claims that over 4,000
deaths could have been saved if the initial red zone had been
extended from Bergamo to outlying areas including another two
towns.
In addition to Fontana and Gallera, the tribunal must now decide
on the positions of the president of the Higher Health
Institute, Italy's main centre for research, control and
technical-scientific advice on public health, Silvio Brusaferro,
the head of Italy's Technical and Scientific Committee on the
Coronavirus, Agostino Miozzo and former Civil Protection chief
Angelo Borrelli, among others.
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