“You ruined my life”: Guido Russo, the dentist from Biella who showed up the other day to get the vaccine with a silicone arm, responds to journalists who ring the doorbell in a small town in the Upper Biellese area. , Bioglio, in the hamlet of San Francesco, where the partner lives. “Go away, I’ll call the carabinieri”, just adds the man, who jumped to the headlines for the gesture that cost him a complaint for fraud. The 57-year-old man, suspended from the register of dentists because he was not vaccinated, had posted the sign “showing the Green Pass voluntary only” on the door of his office.
The news of his performance at the vaccination center, moreover, is going around the world: the New York Times spoke about it yesterday, which titled “A man in Italy tries to get a shot in a fake arm to qualify for a vaccination certificate “, and in the article he described the puzzling story. Similar news appeared in The Guardian, on the CNN website, on that of the BBC and in the Gulf media such as Al Arabiya.
Meanwhile, in the career of Guido Russo, a rather serious injury dating back to five years ago emerges: in 2016, in fact, the doctor was denounced by the Nas carabinieri together with a dental technician who, according to the accusations, illegally exercised the profession of dentist in the his studio in Valle Mosso. The studio itself was seized.
The Biella Medical Association, with a long and bitter letter, announced that it will ask for the most severe measures against the dentist No Vax. The anger of Dr. Guido Russo’s colleagues is all in the words of the President of the Order, Franco Ferrero: “An action like this would be serious for anyone but it is even more serious because it offends our profession and our order. It is a lack of respect for those who in these two years of the pandemic have worked with self-denial and a spirit of service, even to the detriment of their own health “. Now that professional membership has been ascertained, the process to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the dentist has also begun, which could lead to even the most serious of forms of punishment.
Guido Russo, who on Thursday morning had the idea of showing up at the Biver Banca vaccination hub in via Carso, is at risk of radiation wearing a silicone bust with the deltoids inflated by plastic, the kind that the actors use on the set (a trinket that on Amazon it costs over 500 euros) and with which he tried to avoid the injection, hoping that the nurse would not notice that he was sticking the needle in a fake arm.
Doctor No Vax suspended goes to get the vaccine with a fake arm to get the Green Pass: sued for scam
by Carlotta Rocci
This did not happen because Filippa Bua, 60, with a long experience as a nurse and hundreds of hours in the vaccination hubs of the Biella area, took a second to unmask him. “He uncovered his shoulder and I realized that the color of his arm was strange – he says – For a moment I thought I had made a gaffe, because I had asked him for the arm he used less, and I said to myself: do you want to see that he Do I wear the one with the prosthesis? Then I asked him to discover the other and it was identical. I didn’t want to believe it. “
Russo is not upset in front of the nurse, and not even in the face of the news that his bluff has cost him a complaint for fraud with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act against the ASL, which is a public body. The Carabinieri of Biella, who listened to the story of the heads of the ASL, yesterday delivered a long report to the prosecutor. “I don’t believe in the vaccine, I haven’t done it before and I don’t want to do it now. But I need the Green Pass to work,” Russo explained to the nurse who, incredulous, called a colleague to witness what seemed to her a science fiction film.
The nurse who discovered the silicone arm: “That doctor No Vax insisted that I pretend to vaccinate him”
by Carlotta Rocci
“These are difficult days in vaccination centers. The angriest ones are arriving, who do not want to get the vaccine but feel obligated – says Bua – They scream, swear, sometimes cry. But I felt offended by this man as a professional. When he has realizing that he had been discovered, he asked me to give him the injection in the fake arm anyway “. He – a respected professional, at least so far – laughs when he realizes he’s been exposed. Only he laughs, while the news is picked up by newspapers around the world. His order announces immediate disciplinary measures, the president of Piedmont Alberto Cirio defines the scam “an offense to the Piedmontese health system”.
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