Missing red zone in Bergamo, the Public Prosecutor investigates: carabinieri sent to Val Seriana on 5 March 2020 and withdrawn 3 days later, but the documents remain classified despite repeated requests
The Ministry of the Interior must explain “within 30 days” because does not want to make the documents public on the basis of which 400 men and women, including carabinieri, police, financial police and army, they came sent in Val Seriana on 5 March 2020 and then collected 3 days later, thus determining the missing ‘red zone’ in advance on the national lockdown.
An episode that, this is also a hypothesis under consideration by Prosecutor of Bergamo, may have helped make this territory one of the deadliest Covid outbreaks in the world. A new one says it ordinance of the Council of State as part of a complex process that began a year and a half ago fromAGI with a request for access to the documents to the Ministry to be able to consult these documents.
The Ministry, the magistrates Michele Corradino, Giulio Veltri, Giovanni Pescatore, Solveig Cogliani and Ezio Fedullo write, “must provide documented clarifications within 30 days“On the reasons given in his memoirs for not revealing the papers and that is” the need for secretation of information concerning ‘the technical-industrial, technical-operational air, connected with the planning, use and training of the armed forces’ ”; the strategies “of fight against crime and protection of public safety“; “A need for confidentiality despite the considerable time elapsed from the time of interclusion of the red zone in the municipalities of Nembro and Alzano Lombardo “.
The the Ministry’s first ‘no’ to the AGI arrived on 6 November last year. “Acts relating to the use and withdrawal of soldiers in the areas of the Municipalities of Nembro and Alzano” were denied, referring to the “causes of exclusion” provided for by the law, that is, “security and public order”, “national security”, “Defense and military issues”, “the conduct of crimes and their prosecution”.
The Tar, to which the AGI had addressed through a appeal written by the lawyer Gianluca Castagnino, had however rejected the thesis of the Ministry pointing out that civic access “is aimed at encouraging forms of control on the pursuit of institutional functions and on the use of public resources “.
According to the judges Francesco Arzillo and Daniele Bongiovanni, making the cards public would not have entailed any danger because “the request was formulated in September 2020 when the question of the ‘closure’ of the areas was long overdue”, “it is an activity involving military personnel in a limited toponymic and temporal context and it is not part of a broader context aimed at the methods of combating crime and protecting public safety, so much so that their disclosure would nullify the strategy identified by the police force “and the same Prosecutor, questioned by the judges, said that they are not acts covered by secrecy.
For these reasons, the administrative justice body had ordered to make the documents accessible within a month.
But last July the State Council, to whom the Ministry had appealed, I had suspended the decision of the Tar. Now the new ordinance sends ‘the ball’ back to Ministry called to explain, documents in hand, why the community shouldn’t know because the military, ready to “trace” the red zone, were recalled to a new order.
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