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Feb. 3, 2021
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there hasn’t been a single indictment against organizers of illegal gatherings, despite a new procedure that should make this easier. Police have launched hundreds of criminal investigations along these lines, but closed most of the cases, transferring less than a third of them to the State Prosecutor s Office.
The organizers of gatherings can be charged with “an act liable to transmit a disease,” but the sole indictment filed for this violation was against a young man who attended a party after he’d been diagnosed with COVID-19.
According to the new procedure established by the State Prosecutor s Office that went into effect on December 31, a criminal investigation for spreading disease can be opened in three instances: If a person organized a gathering of more than 300 people in an open area or more than 150 in a closed space; if a person diagnosed with COVID-19 violated his or her quarantine; or if a p