The move is curious and also takes the applicants by surprise. After having filed a first defense brief, the lawyer who defends the ministry led by Roberto Speranza last Friday he sent a second brief to the Lazio TAR accompanied by a “documentary deposit”. They are two pages, but of considerable importance in the controversy that revolves around the “secret plan” againstCovid. Presenting itself as a “diligent party”, the Department of Health proceeded to the “filing” of a file: is it perhaps the so mysterious “Operational Plan” created in early February and never made public? No. It’s Stefano Merler’s studio again.
The dicastery next 22 December must appear before the judges of the Lazio Tar due to the appeal presented by two deputies of the Brothers of Italy. Galeazzo Bignami e Marcello Gemmato, after having accessed the documents to obtain the anti-Covid “secret plan”, have turned to the administrative court to ask the robes to force the ministry to publish the document. The goal is to obtain the dossier mentioned by Andrea Urbani, director of programming at the ministry, in an interview with Courier service in April, when he denied the existence of “decision-making gaps” in the first wave, revealing that “as early as January 20 we had a secret plan ready and we followed that plan”. As revealed by the Giornale.it, from the parts of viale Lungotevere Ripa 1 they responded spades to the request for transparency and in the first defensive brief the state lawyer showed his teeth. The defensive line is this: to affirm that everything would have arisen from “erroneous interpretations of the statements made” by Urbani, that the text requested by the applicants would be only the study carried out by Stefano Merler and that therefore there is no “plan”. Position already held in the past by both the minister and other members of the government, as well as by Agostino Miozzo of the CTS, although a highly qualified source of the Giornale.it and the minutes of the CTS say otherwise. A Operational plan of preparation and response to different scenarios of possible development of an epidemic from 2019-nCov it exists indeed, and although everyone is talking about it yet it has not been officially disclosed.
For the ministry, however, Merler’s “Plan” and “analysis” are the same thing. Viale Lungotevere Ripa admits that the February 12 he “learned” of the study, but denies that it was “directed to it” or that he “acquired” it. To have it would be the CTS, which is part of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. So: knock on Palazzo Chigi too. Having read this memo, Bignami, Gemmato and the lawyer Marzot Silvia who assists them had put their hearts in peace and awaited the hearing scheduled for next Tuesday. Instead, the “second memory” appeared on Friday. The state advocacy, to show itself as a “diligent party” made the effort to ask the Cts “the document for which access was requested (ie the study prepared by the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento entitled 2019-NCOV spread scenarios in Italy and impact on the health service, in the event that the virus cannot be contained locally) “and deposited it. As if to say: game over and everyone happy.
The problem is that Bignami, Gemmato and many citizens of that study do not do anything. In addition to having already been published, the parliamentarians do not believe this is the “plan” Urbani spoke of in the interview. A source of the Giornale.it in fact, it ensures that the two documents are distinct. What Merler presents on February 12 at Cts it is a relationship made up of projections and mathematical studies. But he stops there and gives no directions. Nothing to do, therefore, with the guidelines and scenarios that will then be included in the plan drawn up within the Technical Scientific Committee. What emerges (more than two weeks after Merler’s analysis), in fact, is a much more complex job. A draft of that “plan” on February 20 is presented with a lot of slides to Minister Speranza, as reported in Coronavirus Black Book (read here). Could it be that Urbani, or the journalist who reported the interview, meant “February 20” instead of “January 20” referring to the “secret plan” used to respond to the coronavirus? Maybe.
“Now enough – he attacks Bignami – The Ministry is making fun of the Italians and pretending not to understand. And even the state attorney will answer for what he wrote and produced. Because this time we bring everything to the Criminal Prosecutor’s Office. We had said it from the beginning: if they didn’t try to produce the Merler studio, we want the secret plan that Urbani, director of the ministry, has been talking about since April. The Merler study is a predictive model that hypothesizes scenarios on the spread of Covid. Urbani speaks in several interviews about the Covid countering plan. They are two radically different things. In the coming days we will formalize the criminal complaints because obviously it is the only solution that all those who are hiding these domunenti leave us. Because the alternative is that there is no plan to combat the pandemic and that therefore the senior officials of the Ministry lied to the Italians. So either there is incompetence or there is bad faith. In any case, Speranza and the heads of the ministry must respond “.
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