Coronavirus, the leak of the decree. Cnn: “Draft received by the press office of the Lombardy Region”. Which denies: “False”

For a few hours it created chaos. Then the situation came back under control, to the extent possible. Blame the leak, which ended up on the main online newspapers – in Italy and worldwide – the draft of the government decree with the new measures to combat the coronavirus. According to the online newspaper of the CNN, that document was provided to him by the press office of the Lombardy Region. Which however denies: it is not from Pirellone that the draft of the government decree was “blown” to the press.

Dissemination of the draft – A measure that contains stringent and unprecedented rules because they prohibit access and entry into Lombardy and in others fourteen provinces of four regions. It is for this reason that the diffusion of the draft of that decree has become a case. Read the document the measures they came into force on March 8 and until April 3. But by midnight on March 8, the prime minister had not yet approved it. In the meantime, the governors of the regions concerned had already outsourced their own resentment, asking the government to modify the content of the decree. While Milan Central Station had been stormed by “fugitives“They wanted to reach Southern city before the entry into force of the rules. It is for this reason that the prime minister’s meeting called a press conference around one in the morning, with Conte popping up in the press room after half past two.

Sala and Zaia: “View on newspapers before they are officially” – The premier explained the contents of the newly signed decree, which in its final version is the merging of two different documents: one addressed to the Lombardy and to the 14 red provinces, another for the whole national territory. And he defined the leak as a gesture “irresponsible” is “risky for security“. The political authorities of the areas concerned also protest. “Milan, like it or not, is the heart of the country. This morning I listened to the Prime Minister complaining about the leak. It is not a good thing, in fact, that the Mayor and the Prefect of Milan know about these rules from the media “, says the first citizen of the Lombard capital, Giuseppe Sala. “We discovered earlier from some magazines’ homepages about this decree than seeing it on the desk. The draft decree should be secreted and disseminated when it is decided how to communicate it “, attacks the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, among the most critical of the new measures. ‘objective push to the exodus, from the red areas, to the south with cars, trains, buses and planes “, writes the mayor of Naples on facebook, Luigi De Magistris. “If the objective was, rightly, to drastically reduce the risk of contagion, unfortunately the effects were different. In the red areas – he continues – it was necessary – and it must be – immediately foresee that people move only within the limits established by the decree: proven working needs or situations of necessity, that is, movements for health reasons. The rigid check must be done upstream. It is up to the state, through the prefects, to enforce the bans, which are penalized. This morning I heard the Prefect and Quaestor asking, however, that all activities aimed at preventing the circumvention of the decree to protect the health of our community should also be organized in the city. ”

Cnn: “Obtained from the Lombardy Region” – But who was it then to spread the drafts of the decree before they became final? The first newspaper to report the blockade of Lombardy and of 14 other regions was the Corriere.it with an article by Fiorenza Sarzanini. Top correspondent of the newspaper in via Solferino, Sarzanini works in Rome and is an expert on security issues. A few minutes after the Corriere.it, the news of the content of the decree – this time without fima – was also published by the other main online newspapers: starting from Repubblica.it. So it was the turn of the press agencies, and international newspapers. The site of the CNN reporting the news he writes that he received it “by the press office of the Lombardy Region“. Then, later, he added “Also“, Explaining that he had it”also from the press office of the Lombardy Region“.

Denial – Among others, the deputy of the Democratic Party has noticed Andrea Romano, who asked on Twitter: “Just to understand: but here the CNN writes that it has received the draft of the governmental decree ‘from the press office of the Lombardy Region’. But really while the Government worked with the Regions on the details of the provision, did President Fontana’s staff spread drafts? ”. Those directly concerned, however, deny. “The press office of the Lombardy Region learned the contents of the Dpcm draft of 8 March from the main online newspapers. Therefore, no advance was made on our part. The journalistic reconstructions of an international broadcaster who has been asked for immediate rectification are therefore completely unfounded, “reads a note from the Pirellone press office.

The viral pdf – So the mystery remains: who has spread those drafts, risking to trigger panic in the night, as in part has happened? According to what appears in the fattoquotidiano.itì the decree in pdf version it began to circulate in the evening also on circuits other than those of journalists, politicians and experts. As the news was published in the opening in the main online newspapers, the document began to turn up whatsapp chat and on social networks, becoming practically viral. And it wasn’t the links from the articles in the online newspapers that circulated, but it was there pdf version of the decree. There was therefore the will to spread it as much as possible before it became official.

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