The man who hit and killed two tourists, citizens of Belgium, on the A24 link road in Rome last Saturday night is in custody.
The man is accused of multiple road homicides and reportedly tested positive for alcohol and the drug test
.
The two young tourists, aged 24 and 25, were overwhelmed at
Tor Cervara
.
The man who hit them, a forty-year-old Italian who had abandoned his car on the side of the road before driving off into the darkness in the countryside, was then identified by the police and is being investigated.
Jessy Dewildeman and Wibe Bijls
they had arrived in Italy a week ago and had rented a Fiat Panda which they should have returned on Sunday before leaving for Belgium.
On social networks there are the stages of their short journey, which also marked their last days of life: from the stories published on Instagram by Jessy Dewildeman, entitled 'Rome', you can see the journey by plane, the road to Ferentino ( Frosinone) and a video in the Vatican Museums.
Then the accident, a few hours before returning home:
on the road the two young women had perhaps witnessed a collision between cars, with three injured (two men, finished in red code, and a woman), so they would have stopped for provide relief
.
Getting out of the subcompact, the two apparently found themselves in front of a Smart that overwhelmed them throwing one of them into the other lane: they died instantly. but he had been tracked down in the following hours, also thanks to the cameras in the area.
"I feel great pain for the deaths of Jessy Dewildeman and Wibe Bijls. Rome clings to the pain of the family for this terrible tragedy", Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri
wrote on Facebook
.
On social media, the condolences for the families of the two girls immediately began.
Wibe Bijls was a talented and renowned chef in her city.
Among the first to express pain were the colleagues of the restaurant where the young woman worked
: "Wibe, the woman always smiling, friend of all. Have you tasted the passion in our dishes? It is very likely that these were prepared by the superchef Wibe. You taught us so much ", reads on Facebook.
Others describe Wibe as "a polite girl, a super nice colleague / friend and a girl with a heart in the right place that was there for everyone, day and night. You were so young but you already had so many plans and you knew what you wanted".
The other victim, Jessy Dewildeman, was a travel lover, according to her social media profiles.
"Now we hope at least to find a judge who applies the maximum penalty, that is 18 years of imprisonment, because killing two young girls who had stopped to help and flee implies a strict application of the law -
asks the Victims Association .
Road accidents
- Moreover, this is inevitably a case of international importance, in which Italy must show both that it is able to correctly apply the legislation and that it is able to protect the tourists who visit it, as in the case of the two. poor Belgian victims ".