The case was also against former regional welfare councillor Giulio Gallera and 11 other people in relation to Bergamo’s management of the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020.
The request has been filed with the Brescia ministers’ tribunal, which last month threw out the case against former prime minister Giuseppe Conte and former health minister Roberto Speranza.
Theirs was part of the same probe by Bergamo prosecutors into suspicions of causing an epidemic and manslaughter amid claims that over 4000 deaths could have been saved if the initial red zone had been extended from Bergamo to outlying areas including another two towns.
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.
They will also decide on 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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