Rebellin, the truck driver who hit him and killed him released from prison in Germany – Corriere.it

only an interim measure, but not a good sign. the 62-year-old German truck driver who hit and killed the former cycling champion on 30 November in Montebello Vicentino has been released from prison Davide Rebellin.

Wolfgang Rieke was arrested last Thursday on charges of vehicular homicide and failure to provide assistance on a European warrant issued by the Vicenza Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to reports, the German judge has suspended the provisional arrest pending the final decision on the man’s extradition. The haulier, released from prison in Munster (Germany) in the afternoon, obtained a sort of weekly signature obligation.

On the day of the accident, 51-year-old Rebellin was training when, near the roundabout along regional road 11 towards Montebello Vicentino, he was run over by the articulated lorry he was driving Rieke. After the collision, the man got out of the vehicle, approached the victim who was lying on the ground, then got back on board and set off again. The images of the surveillance cameras in the area and the words of the witnesses, some of whom had photographed the investor, directed the searches and soon we arrived at the German shipping company for which the man worked. After the European investigation order, the vehicle was seized, and last January analyzed by the Italian investigators who, during an inspection in Germany, found the signs of the accident on the bumper, despite someone having tried to clean them with an acidic cleaner. According to the investigating judge who signed the arrest warrant, Rebellin’s death is to be attributed exclusively to a plurality of violations of behavioral rules by Rieke in driving the articulated lorry in the moments prior to the impact with the cyclist.