Vaccination scandal spreads: Another vaccination for Italian hotel employees at Munich Airport

The news only makes you shake your head: There is said to have been a second corona vaccination campaign for Italians in Munich.

The investigation has expanded.

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- The headline caused a stir last month in June: Over 100 employees of an Italian luxury hotel received their corona vaccination * at Munich Airport.

Now it became known: This should not have been the only incident of this kind.

The public prosecutor's office has now expanded the investigation.

Munich Airport: Second vaccination campaign for Italians - investigations against a doctor from Cologne

As the German Press Agency (dpa) reports, there is a suspicion that another group of Italian hotel employees at Munich Airport received injections against the corona virus *.

This was confirmed by Matthias Held, chief public prosecutor of the Nuremberg General Public Prosecutor, on Friday by the dpa.

The second vaccination campaign took place just over a week later, on May 28th.

So far it is unclear how many employees were vaccinated there.

However, there is a suspicion that doctors vaccinated on both dates, explains Held.

The latest trace of the extraordinary Corona * company outings leads to North Rhine-Westphalia.

According to the chief public prosecutor in Cologne, a doctor's practice and a pharmacy were searched on Thursday, July 1st.

The doctor from Cologne is also said to have vaccinated at Munich Airport.

Also against him is now under investigation.

Vaccination scandal at Munich Airport: Second vaccination campaign just a week later - raid in Cologne

So far, it was only known that around 120 employees of the Italian holiday resort Forte Village had traveled to Munich * on May 21, 2021 to be vaccinated there.

After a short stay, the staff flew back to the island of Sardinia.

The investigation into suspected vaccine misappropriation, bribery and corruption in the healthcare system is now ongoing. As a result, the Public Prosecutor's Office had searched several places in Munich in mid-June. Details of the results of the investigation could not be given yet, said the chief prosecutor.

Both the Federal Ministry of Health and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had requested information about the vaccinations of the Italians. Söder emphasized: "We don't want vaccination tourism to Germany." You can read more stories about Munich Airport here *. By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our new, regular Erding newsletter.