Will be extradited to Italy Wolfgang Rieke, the truck driver resident in Germany who last November 30 ran over and killed the former cycling champion Davide Rebellin on the regional 11 Vicenza-Verona .
This was decided by the German judge who is following the case. The authorities of the two countries will now have to agree on times and ways for it to be handed over to the carabinieri.
His defender, the lawyer Andrea Nardin, had appealed to the Venice Review Court asking that the precautionary measure be canceled or replaced with house arrest , pointing out that the man now only performs official duties.
The hearing is set for July 14. For the Italian judge who requested his arrest, Rieke is instead «completely insensitive to any form of scruple» and his behavior denotes «an astonishing absence of any sign of remorse».
That day the cyclist was riding his bike when the truck hit him near the Montebello Vicentino motorway junction. Rieke got out of the cabin and approached the victim, then took his place in the cabin and left, but was photographed by some witnesses.
The technical consultancy - reads the note signed by the prosecutor Lino Giorgio Bruno - ascertained «that the driver had direct and indirect visibility which allowed him to adequately perceive the presence of the cyclist on the roadway. Also thanks to a camera that is activated automatically when the direction indicator comes on".
(Unioneonline/D)
