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Former Italian PM Conte Investigated Over COVID Response

  • #COVID-19
  • #Diseases & conditions
  • #Medicine & healthcare
  • #Germany
  • #Italy
  • #World
  • #Austria
  • #Switzerland
  • #Sweden
  • #Coal
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MAR 2023
Image copyright: Reuters [via The Guardian]
story last updated MAR 2023

The Spin

Narrative A

Italy's relaxed regional and national COVID responses may very well have led to thousands of excess deaths in the early days of the pandemic. For the good of the victims' families, their communities, and the nation as a whole, this prosecution must go forward, and the officials at fault should be held accountable.

ANSA.it

Narrative B

Faced with an unprecedented pandemic, Conte was tasked with containing the virus and protecting the fragile economy without infringing on fundamental liberties, but still faced accusations of draconian COVID measures. In a puzzling change of course, he's now being investigated for not going far enough. Considering the political division in the country from mid-2020 through 2021 — and that still exists today — it would be foolish not to wonder if subsequent prosecutions are politically motivated.

BNN

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