A few hours after the first hearing in the trial in which he is involved, Wolfgang Rieke suffered a stroke: he is hospitalized in serious condition
A few hours before the first hearing of the trial for the death of Davide Rebellin the news arrives that Wolfgang Rieke, the truck driver accused of the murder of the unfortunate Venetian cyclist has been hospitalized since late yesterday evening at the hospital Ca’ Foncello in Treviso, where he entered code red following an ischemic stroke. On the conditions of the German, which he is serving a sentence of house arrest by some acquaintances residing in the Treviso area waiting to be subjected to trial, maximum confidentiality applies: some sources, however, speak of conditions deemed very serious, although no medical bulletins are expected in the next few hours.
Request for postponement of the first hearing
The lawyers of Rieke they have already asked for it postponement due to legitimate impediment of the hearing scheduled for the day, request to which the Court of Vicenza will respond in the afternoon as stated on Ansa. Of course, the news also took me by surprise family members of Rebellin, who had appreciated the same in recent weeks Court Vicenza he had rejected the request for plea bargaining presented by the German truck driver’s lawyers, after initially the PM Roderich Blattner and the defendant’s defense team had “agreed” to a prison sentence of 3 years and 11 months.
The hearing scheduled for today was supposed to sanction the first step towards a process that many believe could still prove to be quite fastsince all the clues and evidence pointing to the guilt of Rieke are rather evident, such as to lead to a verdict on which only the duration of the sentence depends. For vehicular manslaughter, the art. 589 bis cpva provides for a sentence of 2 to 7 years in prison.
Rieke, the last months: the escape and the “surrender” to Brenner
Wolfgang Rieke he was expected in court today, but it is clear that he will not be able to be present at the hearing in any way. He is accused of not having given aid to Rebellin, despite having realized that he had hit him during a maneuver with his vehicle. Images from the service cameras were taken the truck driver intent on cleaning up all traces of the collision with the unfortunate runner.
Once he left for the Germany, instead of using the busiest roads he preferred to go through secondary roads, so as to be more difficult to trace by the police. Once he arrived home he had completely cleaned the trailer with cleaning products, so as to eliminate any trace attributable to the accident.
Last August 25th Rieke showed up spontaneously at the Brenner borderready to hand himself over to the Italian authorities, and after a brief detention in prison Of Vicenza he was transferred to house arrest by friends in the Treviso area. But now he has started another “battle” with life: a twist of fate that could have unexpected consequences.
