Relatives of coronavirus victims in Italy have urged the European commission president to supervise an investigation into the deaths, as 100 new scenarios ended up submitted to prosecutors on Monday.

In a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, the authorized commission of Noi Denunceremo (We Will Denounce), the group driving the investigation, claimed there appeared to be “signs of unspeakable crimes in opposition to humanity” in Lombardy, the region worst strike by the virus in Italy.

Final month, prosecutors in Bergamo, exactly where the virus is estimated to have killed at least 6,000 people today, questioned leaders of the Lombardy area and the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, above the failure by authorities to quickly quarantine the cities of Alzano Lombardo and Nembro, both equally in Bergamo province, and Orzinuovi, in Brescia, in spite of tips from scientists in early March.

10 cities in the Lombardy province of Lodi went into lockdown on 21 February immediately after Italy’s first regionally transmitted scenario was confirmed, but Bergamo and Brescia were only quarantined with the relaxation of Lombardy on 8 March.

“Should prosecutors establish that the skipped pink zones pertain to the political area alternatively than to criminal law, it will be very clear how the decision not to contain the unfold of the virus by subsequent scientific suggestions was deliberate – a deliberate selection to sacrifice life, tens of thousands of lives, to steer clear of the political repercussions of a lockdown in three economically productive towns in northern Italy,” Noi Denunceremo wrote in the letter.

The fee submitted the 1st 50 authorized issues in June and is predicted to file all around 120 a lot more before September.

The groupgathered momentum after commencing a Fb website page in April that now has 60,000 associates, and it has motivated related initiatives in the United kingdom, US and France.

“We have so a lot help … this is a sign that individuals do not want to neglect what happened,” said Stefano Fusco, who established Noi Denunceremo following his grandfather died from Covid-19. “They want responses, the truth of the matter and justice.”

Relations say a regional decree approved on 8 March permitting hospitals to transfer minimal-risk coronavirus people to care properties also contributed to the substantial selection of fatalities. In addition, they have requested prosecutors to look into the alleged failure by authorities to sufficiently advise men and women of the possibility of infection, as effectively as the absence of individual protective products in healthcare amenities and what they say was the lack of helpful and well timed medical assistance.

So far, regional and govt leaders have blamed each and every other for the alleged failures. “The blame video game has undoubtedly delivered evidence of wrongdoings no just one wants to be held accountable for,” Noi Denunceremo wrote in the letter to Von der Leyen. “In the meantime, kinfolk of the victims seek out justice. And they do so currently being conscious that Italy is a nation in which the political institution is especially proficient in developing red herrings and scapegoats.”