Wolfgang Rieke, the 63-year-old German truck driver, ran over and killed former cycling champion Davide Rebellin with his truck in Montebello Vicentino. Prosecutor and defense had agreed on 3 years and 11 months, we go to trial.
The judges' decision can be considered a technicality, explains the truck driver's lawyer, Andrea Nardin: it was impossible, he admits, for the judges to accept the sentence already rejected with the same formula at the preliminary hearing.