The reasons for the dismissal of Conte and Speranza in the Covid investigation

The Court of Ministers of Brescia has archived the positions of former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and former Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, investigated in the Bergamo prosecutor’s investigation into the management of the first phase of the pandemic in Val Seriana. Both were charged with manslaughter and manslaughter. In twenty-nine pages of motivations, the judging panel demolished the accusatory system, which was also based on an expert report prepared by the microbiologist Andrea Crisanti (now a senator of the Democratic Party), according to which the timely application of the red zone would have saved 4,148 deaths. “The documents – the judges write – lack the proof altogether that the 57 people indicated in the indictment, who would have died due to the failure to extend the red zone, are among the 4,148 excess deaths that would not have occurred if there had been no red zone”. “The professor. Crisanti – reads immediately afterwards – carried out a theoretical study but was unable to answer about the causal link between the failure to activate the red zone and the death of certain people. The contestation of manslaughter in relation to the death of the persons indicated in the charge is therefore based on a mere theoretical hypothesis devoid of even the slightest confirmation”.