The turning point finally came with the tragic death of thirteen-year-old Chris Obeng Abom . In the late afternoon, the Carabinieri of Negrar, on the orders of the investigating judge of Verona, placed the 39-year-old motorist under house arrest who had run over the boy on the night of 31 July on the provincial road 12, without providing assistance, but driving away with the Renault Espace from the windshield screwed up.
The suspect's lawyer had just released the letter with which the man had addressed the parents of the baby footballer: "My life ended with Chris's," he wrote.
In those moments Davide Begalli, a small building contractor from Valpolicella, was still on the loose, under investigation for vehicular homicide and hit and miss, but in a state of freedom.
The young man had been run over on the side of the road on Monday night; they had found him dying and were rushed to the Borgo Trento hospital in Verona, where he died on the morning of Tuesday 1 August. However, the prosecutor Elvira Vitulli, owner of the file, took the time to evaluate one by one the elements of the documents filed by the investigators. And today he asked the investigating judge Carola Musio for the custody order.
Begalli was placed under house arrest, because - the investigators are convinced - there is no danger of the suspect fleeing. An autopsy will not be performed on the boy's body. Only a cadaveric blood sample will be taken, to compare it with the traces found on the 39-year-old's car.
The investigators also had the "evidence" provided by the security cameras: a camera, not far from the scene, had filmed Begalli's Renault which was driving away immediately after the accident in the direction of Verona; another, a quarter of a "An hour later, he stared at the frontal image of the car, with the right front headlight destroyed. The following morning the Renault's passage was documented by another camera, as the 39-year-old went to work. And on this occasion the damage they had appeared prominently on the car.
