A 62-year-old German truck driver has been recognized because the suspect who struck and killed 51-year-old Italian bike owner Davide Rebellin in a highway accident in Italy on Wednesday, based on Italian police and prosecutors.
“Our relentless investigations […] have allowed Vicenza Carabinieri police to place a face and a reputation to the driving force of the heavy items car that ran over and killed Davide Rebellin,” police colonel Giuseppe Moscati stated in an announcement on Friday.
The person, who has since been situated in Germany, faces a cost of “omicidio stradale” or “highway murder” — against the law launched in Italian laws in 2016 — however has not been arrested because the offence would not exist within the German penal code.
Rebellin was killed immediately after being struck by the car — a Volvo truck with a German licence plate — as he was biking in Montebello Vicentino, within the northern area of Veneto. In keeping with the Italian prosecutor, the truck driver initially bought out of the car and method the sufferer however then drove away.
Different folks on the scene of the crash took pictures of the driving force’s licence plate and helped authorities hint him again. He was then situated in Germany’s area of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In keeping with the Italian information company ANSA, the driving force has two prior convictions in Italy associated to highway accidents. In 2001, he was reportedly concerned in a non-fatal hit in Foggia, within the southern area of Puglia, after which he fled with out giving help to these concerned within the accident. In 2014, he was banned from driving after he was discovered to be drunk on the wheel by visitors police in Chieti, Abruzzo.
Tributes have poured in for Rebellin from the biking group surprised by the tragic accident.
In 2004, on the peak of his profession, Rebellin received the Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallonne and Liege–Bastogne–Liege. 5 years later in 2009, he was ordered to return the silver medal he had received on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing after taking a retroactive doping check. Rebellin insisted he was harmless, however returned the medal as requested by the Italian Olympic Committee CONI.
Rebellin had retired in October after three many years in skilled biking.
