A 62-year-old German truck driving force has been known because the suspect who struck and killed 51-year-old Italian bike owner Davide Rebellin in a street coincidence in Italy on Wednesday, in line with Italian police and prosecutors.
“Our relentless investigations […] have allowed Vicenza Carabinieri police to put a face and a name to the driver of the heavy goods vehicle that ran over and killed Davide Rebellin,” police colonel Giuseppe Moscati mentioned in a remark on Friday.
The guy, who has since been positioned in Germany, faces a fee of “omicidio stradale” or “road homicide” — against the law presented in Italian law in 2016 — however has now not been arrested because the offence does not exist within the German penal code.
Rebellin was once killed right away after being struck via the car — a Volvo truck with a German licence plate — as he was once biking in Montebello Vicentino, within the northern area of Veneto. According to the Italian prosecutor, the truck driving force to start with were given out of the car and means the sufferer however then drove away.
Other folks on the scene of the crash took pictures of the driving force’s licence plate and helped government hint him again. He was once then positioned in Germany’s area of North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to the Italian information company ANSA, the driving force has two prior convictions in Italy associated with street injuries. In 2001, he was once reportedly all in favour of a non-fatal hit in Foggia, within the southern area of Puglia, and then he fled with out giving help to these concerned within the coincidence. In 2014, he was once banned from using after he was once discovered to be inebriated on the wheel via site visitors police in Chieti, Abruzzo.
Tributes have poured in for Rebellin from the biking neighborhood surprised via the tragic coincidence.
In 2004, on the top of his occupation, Rebellin gained the Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallonne and Liege–Bastogne–Liege. Five years later in 2009, he was once ordered to go back the silver medal he had gained on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing after taking a retroactive doping take a look at. Rebellin insisted he was once blameless, however returned the medal as asked via the Italian Olympic Committee CONI.
Rebellin had retired in October after 3 a long time in skilled biking.
