(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 28 - "See you in the morgue", "let's kill the family and then we'll skin you alive".
These are some of the threats sent, between October 2020 and January 2021, to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza by four people for whom the Rome Prosecutor's Office ordered the direct summons for judgment.
The letters, which also arrived anonymously to the minister's secretariat, had as their object the government's policies against Covid.
Against the suspects, all men between the ages of 56 and 36, the anti-terrorism prosecutor Gianfederica Dito, coordinated by the adjunct Michele Prestipino, disputes the crime of aggravated threats.
Based on what was reconstructed by the Nas carabinieri who carried out the investigations, about fifty emails were sent to the head of the Health Department in three months.
Between the four, residing in Turin, Cagliari, Milan and Enna, no connections emerged.
In some never, sent by fictitious accounts, you can read phrases such as: "you have to go to the electric chair", "shut your mouth or I'll cut your tongue" and there is someone who writes "you will pay dearly for the terror you are doing" or " you will have to go to jail for the deaths you caused. "
For the four, the trial was set for 20 September before the single judge of the Court of Rome.
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