Bassetti: “More threats, the haters have to pay”

“The first complaint I made was in January 2021. Today insults and threats continue to reach me via social networks. The situation has improved but less than I expected, it has not calmed down. It will end, I think, when the first ones arrive. real measures, because perhaps someone has not yet realized what they can face. Many may have thought about the impunity of social networks. But the haters have to pay “. These are the words of Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the San Martino hospital in Genoa. Yesterday, he explains to Adnkronos Salute, “I was at the Prosecutor’s Office in Genoa and I was heard by the prosecutor on the complaints I presented for the threats, insults, persecutory acts that I suffered for two years”. Some of those who committed them “are in the process of being identified. There has been a whole investigative activity by Digos and there are also names and surnames. Few have even apologized. Some directly, others through lawyers. They have it. done just after being identified. But I don’t care because there are those who do it because they are afraid that it will go on. And it is: I don’t stop until I see someone condemned. I will go to the last degree of judgment , I will give what comes to charity, I don’t care. But they have to pay. I want to see someone who pays financially but also with a penalty. The haters must understand that you don’t hide behind a keyboard, or behind an anonymous letter because on the other hand there is a person and a family with all that that entails “. “I – continues Bassetti – I have a wife, two teenage children. And I want you to understand that when you do these things you are committing a crime. Threats, stalking, insults are serious crimes. I want to go to the bottom also to give a message to young people, so that they understand that you have to be very careful doing these things because you risk ruining your life, getting your criminal record dirty. And a strong message that I hope will be sent, after what has happened in these two years “. The infectious disease specialist says he is “confident. I found a very attentive, prepared, participatory PM. He reassured me that he will work on all the complaints presented and that he will ensure that all the files are brought together. I hope to find justice. everyday life has changed profoundly in this year, it has been made more difficult and less safe by these people, who have also created me anxiety states. The thing that hurt and hurt me most was the attack on my family. I believe that we cannot fail to pursue them. Everything is so absurd and paradoxical that sometimes it is hard to believe how a doctor can be threatened with death “.” It is not even clear why – insists Bassetti -. Obviously I did not set up the compulsory vaccination or the Green pass. I only did my job as a doctor telling people to get vaccinated for their own good or that the obligation can possibly help. There is a lot of scientific ignorance, but also about how the machine works o State. But against ignorant and violent people there can only be a reaction from the judiciary. I am determined, I will go on. The compensation request will be massive after the penal part. In the meantime, I hope to see at least some indictments very soon, a process that opens. “Today for Bassetti in everyday life not much has changed yet:” I am under active supervision, I am escorted to the workplace, to public events. On any occasion – he says – I travel on my vehicle and I have a vehicle from the police station behind me that follows me and makes a surveillance with home reclamation. I never thought that would happen. From this point of view we can say that we are truly the first. The first among the last. We will not have excelled on many things about Covid, but on this fact of having doctors threatened and placed under guard, yes, since I am not the only one to have suffered attacks. In stupidity, therefore, we managed to excel “.