MANTUA In the days in which the alarm for citrobacter returns in Verona, the story of the killer bacterium which between 2018 and 2020 infected around a hundred newborns (including Alice from Mantua who died due to the bacterium) returns to the courtroom August 16, 2020 at just 5 months of age), causing permanent damage to nine others. The case of the little victim from Mantua is the only one for now, together with that of another little girl from Padua who suffered serious permanent damage, for which the Verona prosecutor’s office has requested the indictment of seven suspects including doctors and hospital managers of the woman and child of Borgo Trento. Yesterday, the judge discussed three oppositions to the request for dismissal made by the same prosecutor regarding all the other cases examined. These are the parents of three children with permanent brain damage who have filed a civil action. Once the judge had heard the parties, he reserved his decision, which is expected in the next few days. At the end of the month, however, the trial should finally begin for the two cases for which the prosecutor claims to have identified responsibilities. In the previous hearing, the preliminary hearing judge Livia Magri accepted the defense’s preliminary objection regarding the “indeterminacy of the charge”. In practice, in the next hearing the Prosecutor will have the task of “better clarifying the accusation by specifying the various profiles of guilt from which the individual suspects will have to defend themselves”.
