The man who ran over and killed a 24-year-old Bangladeshi citizen was formed while the latter was on board a scooter in Via Casal del Marmo, in the north of Rome. He is a 26-year-old and against him the accusation is of road homicide but he could also be accused of failure to assist. "I was in shock and that's why I left," the twenty-year-old, defended by lawyer Luca Pallotta, told investigators.
Marco Mannage had recently phoned his mother on Sunday evening saying he was returning home. Then the tragedy. He would have been hit and left on the ground by a van that then drove away without the driver having tried to rescue the boy. To try to rescue the young man, of Bangladeshi origin, some passers-by who raised the alarm and who would have spoken of a white van going at high speed. The incident is being investigated by local police officers of the Cassia Group who are trying to reconstruct the dynamics through the footage of some cameras in the area. Thus trying to get to the person responsible for the accident.
The 25-year-old is the 58th victim since the beginning of the year.
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