Families of those killed by coronavirus in Italy denounce a denialist journalist

Relatives of those killed by coronavirus from the city of Bergamo (north of Italy), whose coffins were transported by Army trucks to be buried in other regions in March 2020, denounced a journalist today for doubting the veracity of those images.

The association that represents these families presented this Thursday before the Bergamo Public Prosecutor’s Office a complaint and asked to initiate a procedure for libel and aggravated defamationlocal media reported.

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In March 2020, in full confinement to control the spread of the coronavirusa long column of military trucks passed through the center of bergamotransporting dozens of coffins for cremation elsewhere because the city cemetery no longer had capacity.

Those images gained great importance at the international level, but were recently questioned by the journalist Tommaso Montesanoeditor of Politics in the newspaper “I release”.

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“The coffins of bergamo are to coronavirus like Lake Duchessa to the kidnapping of (Aldo) Moro”wrote Montesano on social networks, in reference to the false statement issued by the Red Brigades in April 1978, with which they diverted the search carried out by the Police for the body of the leader of the Christian Democracy.

Tommaso Montesano’s tweet.

The message is already deleted. The journalist eliminated it after the controversy generated, but the director of his newspaper, Alessandro Sallusti, He has asked the company to discuss with the legal department whether there are grounds to fire him.

The association considered in the complaint that Montesano has shown an absolute lack of respect for the pain of the families of these victims who “were denied the dignity of burial.”

“The shamefully offensive and defamatory intention of Mr. Tommaso Montesano is evident, much more serious due to the fact that it has been carried out in the exercise of the journalistic profession and has been amplified through a social network, in order to deny a of the saddest historical truths of the post-war period and offending the victims and their families”, explained in the lawsuit, according to the sources.

“The sole purpose was to discredit and slander the victims and with them the pain of all the relatives in order to embrace denial theories that are also dangerous in terms of incitement to hatred,” they concluded.

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Source: Elcomercio