The prosecutor requests the file of the investigation to geriatrics and Government for the covid

  • It rules out the crime of reckless homicide, as it cannot establish a direct relationship between the deaths and the transfer of patients

Prosecutor Víctor Castells has asked the judge to file the investigation to clarify whether there were irregularities in the management of the Generalitat in the covid crisis in the nursing homes during confinement by the covid and in the one carried out by the nursing homes themselves, according to the letter to which EL PERIÓDICO has had access.

The public prosecutor rules out that a crime of reckless homicide had been committed, since it had not been possible to determine “for criminal purposes” a relationship of “direct causality between the deaths and the transfer of patients” to health centers, which according to the Civil Guard and in one specific case, those with covid symptoms and those who did not traveled mixed. It also rejects the existence of a crime of embezzlement in the contracting of services by the Generalitat, in which the ‘exconseller’ of ERC Xavier Vendrell.

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The investigation began precisely as a result of the conversations intervened with Vendrell in the ‘Voloh case’. As a result of the telephone calls in which the situation of the nursing homes during the confinement came to light, the judge asked the Ministries of Health and Social Affairs (now Social Rights) multitude of documentation. The investigations focused, in the end, on a residence and on contracts for the referral of the elderly to health centers.

The prosecutor maintains that there are no “objective elements” that prove that the displacement of patients with covid symptoms along with other healthy ones caused deaths. They were not tested, because they were lacking- He adds that at that time there was no protocol for transfers. Exculpation of cover-up to the president of two residential employers, Maria Cinta Pascual.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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