Pietro Genovese, son of director Paolo, who was driving the car that struck and killed two sixteen-year-olds in Rome last night, reportedly tested positive for alcohol and drug tests. Reportedly, only further tests, the results of which will be available in the coming days, will be able to determine the parameters and levels of substances found. Their lives ended just meters from their home and the high school they attended together. Gaia and Camilla, the two sixteen-year-olds who were struck last night while crossing the street on Corso Francia in the northern part of Rome, were "best friends." Classmates and inseparable even outside of school, Camilla Romagnoli and Gaia Vonfreymann had spent the evening last night at Ponte Milvio, a popular gathering place for young people in that part of the capital. They were happy, as all kids are on the first day of vacation, with schools closed for the Christmas holidays. Gaia, sociable and smiling, was a true athlete. For some time, she had dedicated herself to rowing and was currently playing volleyball. "A wonderful person, truly special and always ready to help others," a friend said through tears. An only child, she lived a few meters from the De Sanctis classical high school, where she was in her third year. Her father, a retired Carabinieri reserve officer, has worked in the insurance field for 32 years. It was he, "confined to a wheelchair following a car accident, who recognized his daughter," a friend of Gaia's said. Camilla, on the other hand, had a sister a few years older. She was shyer and quieter. Her father, Marino, works for a grocery company and, coincidentally, for about ten years has also supplied one of the restaurants overlooking the very site of the terrible accident. A "huge tragedy," many repeated today as they looked at the bouquets of flowers left at the site of the accident, which occurred a few hundred meters from where the victims lived and which involved a third young man: twenty-year-old Pietro Genovese, son of director Paolo. It was also a tragedy for him and his family, although he escaped unharmed. A former student at Mameli High School, a film lover and rugby enthusiast, Pietro Genovese was behind the wheel of the car that struck the two girls. His Facebook profile features several photos of him smiling with friends and on various trips. "The pain for Gaia and Camilla and their parents is unbearable. We are a broken family; it's an immense tragedy that we will carry with us forever," said the boy's father, director Paolo Genovese.
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