First "an offer of 200 euros", then the sentence: "This is how it works here, take the clothes and dress her, if she is a Covid corpse, don't worry that I'll give you 400, the family members want her dressed".
It is the proposal that, according to his complaint, an employee of the mortuary of the Sacco hospital in Milan would have been heard, in November 2020, by a manager of a funeral home company.
According to the order of the investigating judge Stefania Donadeo, as part of an investigation "on a widespread corruptive practice among all the operators of the morgue", in which "violations" of the anti-Covid rules were also found.
The morgue attendant on November 17, 2020, in full second wave, would deliver
a complaint to the local police in Milan, kicking off the investigations that today led to three interdictive precautionary measures.
About ten days earlier, according to the complaint, "a subject of the Penati funeral home", whose owner is among the 13 suspects in the Milanese investigation, would have addressed him as follows: "Turn to me and look at me in the eyes, I'll explain how it works exactly here. It works like this, take your clothes and dress her, if she is a Covid body, don't worry, I'll give you 400, the family members want her dressed ".
The corpses of deaths from Covid, according to health regulations, cannot be dressed.
To her refusal, the entrepreneur replied: "It is only you who do not take them, at this point she sends a nurse to dress her".
The order of the investigating judge states that "the suspects have shown particular bravado in the implementation and participation in corrupt practices". Furthermore, the management of the mortuary services of the Sacco di Milano is "pathologically affected by a deep-rooted system of corruption between the operators of the mortuary and some undertakers of the funeral agencies operating in the Milan area".
The disqualification measures concerned a morgue operator who "reported" the bodies in exchange for money and the two representatives of the funeral parlors Sofam Ap srl and Maggiore. The operator referred to these companies "the relatives of the deceased".
