(ANSA) - AREZZO, APRIL 27 - The author of the video shot on February 6 on Rome's ring road has been identified by the police, showing the 53-year-old painter Francesco Sandrelli wrapped in flames outside his burning car.
The man later died of his burns.
Filming the scene, without helping, a Roman motorist, now tracked down by the police thanks to Facebook, and reported for hit and miss.
On the social network he had written: "I made the video" and admitting that he was the one who made the video with the mobile phone, he added that the victim "was not lying on the ground. Let's say he was in a strange situation".
Now he is under investigation.
"Maybe he could have done some strange gesture and made things worse - he justified himself in the same post - And then there were the carabinieri lined up in the car not far from me".
Those claims were criticized by other Facebook users and then deleted.
But investigators still managed to track him down and the writing.
In that story, the painter's car, a Volkswagen, suddenly caught fire while driving, the driver stopped and got out but was unable to save himself, the flames had by now enveloped him causing very serious burns.
Although he was reached by 118 who was still alive and then transported by helicopter to the emergency room, he died in hospital after a few weeks.
At his funeral in Camucia (Arezzo), the priest dwelt on the loss of values in today's society and on forgotten humanity.
The victim's family had asked to find the author of the video.
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