Italy: a little too beautiful story of a priest who died of coronavirus after having "given up his respirator"

This is the story of a parish priest who was so loved by his parishioners, that popular rumor beat him up a bit quickly.

"Italian priest dies after giving his respirator to a younger patient" . It is in these terms that several media relayed on Tuesday the story of a priest "martyr", ready to give up his artificial respirator - offered by his parishioners - to save the life of a younger boy. Too good to be true? Still, the information, in a few hours, went around social networks and then the world press.

But when you check the information, things get tough. On Twitter, the initial source is an article from local magazine Araberara.

We learn that the village of Casnigo (Lombardy) mourns Don Giuseppe Berardelli, 72-year-old archpriest of the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste since 2006, who died on the night of Sunday March 15 to Monday 16.

The title of the article is suggestive: "Don Giuseppe Berardelli, who died on the ground as a priest, he gave up

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