From today Pietro Genovese is a free man. The twenty-year-old son of the well-known director Paolo Genovese, who hit and killed two 16-year-old girls in his car on the night of 21 December 2019 in the Corso Francia area in Rome, no longer has restrictive measures against him.
The judges of the Court of Appeal, as required by the law for final judgments, have eliminated the measure of the residence obligation that had been imposed on last July 8, the day on which the sentence of 5 years and four months passed final after ratification of the concordat in second degree.
Genovese must now wait for the Supervisory Court, which will have to decide on how to serve the residual sentence, about 3 years and 7 months. It is not excluded that the young person can be entrusted to social services.
Four days in prison, 1 year and 7 months of house arrest: this is what Genovese, accused of multiple road murder for the death of Gaia Von Freymann and Camilla Romagnoli, served. In the proceedings, the families of the two girls no longer appeared as civil plaintiffs as they obtained compensation.
Camilla's family, through the lawyer Cesare Piraino, hopes that "the Supervisory Court will evaluate with serenity, seriousness and rigor the request for entrustment to the extended social service that the condemned will propose".
THE PROCESS - In the first instance, Genovese was sentenced to 8 years in prison. In the reasons for that sentence, the gup Gaspare Sturzo had reconstructed what happened that tragic night in Corso Francia when Gaia and Camilla, returning home from an evening to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas holidays, were mowed down by the busy Genovese car, argued the judge, in an overtaking race. The two students, according to the investigators, had not made any gambles nor their conduct had jeopardized their safety: they were in fact crossing on the strips, after the pedestrian traffic light had turned green. An irreproachable behavior which, however, was not enough to save them from death, from the violent impact with the car driven by Genovese that hit them by killing them instantly. The GUP defined "the degree of guilt of the accused very high, in terms of the quantum of avoidability of the event, since the accident was also the result of a negligent choice to drive after using alcohol, even knowing that it was obliged not to drink if he wanted to drive a car, according to his age and for the time he got his driving license ".
Appraisals and investigations, ratified by the trial, showed that the twenty-year-old hit the two girls while they were "on the pedestrian crossing, in the section of the third lane on the left of Corso Francia, and after they had begun the crossing with the pedestrian green but they were stopped for having noticed to their left three cars coming from the previous traffic lights at high speed, in fact in an overtaking race, which showed no sign of slowing down ". In fact, the judge argued in the first instance sentence that the accused, before the tragic impact, had "carried out a series of overtakes using at the same time a mobile phone with which he sent messages; exceeding the speed limit at night; starting a last overtaking of a car that had started to brake and then stopped ".
(Unioneonline / vl)
