Inter fan killed, Manduca: 'I didn't run over anyone'. The Napoli fan will be tried with an abbreviated trial starting November 2.
“I didn’t hit anyone, I just ran away scared by the riots”. This is what Fabio Manduca declared, in summary, in the closed-door hearing before the Milan preliminary hearing judge Carlo Ottone De Marchi, who accepted his request for a summary trial (first hearing on November 2), for the accusation of having hit and killed Daniele Belardinelli with his SUV, a Varese fan who died in the clashes on December 26, 2018 not far from San Siro before the match between Inter and Napoli. Manduca, accused of voluntary homicide, asked to be questioned again today and responded to prosecutors Bordieri and Stagnaro by continuing to deny the accusations and maintaining that it was his first time at the stadium to see Napoli.
“I saw a red rocket before the traffic light,” Manduca argued in summary. “The Ford Transit in front of me reversed, I passed it on the left with my Renault Kadjar, then the police signaled me to go ahead and I drove straight to the stadium without stopping.” “In our opinion, it is not a credible version,” explained lawyer Gianmarco Beraldo, the lawyer for Belardinelli’s mother, one of the three civil parties who joined the case, along with the Varese fan’s wife and her adult daughter. For the lawyer, it is also “a version that contrasts with others he has given.” “Nothing changes,” said Eugenio Briatico, Manduca’s lawyer, who was however accompanied by another lawyer at today’s hearing. “Manduca’s version has always been that he didn’t realize he had hit anyone, and that won’t change.” Manduca, a 40-year-old Neapolitan, was arrested on October 18, 2019, by order of investigating judge Guido Salvini. The charge of voluntary homicide, according to the prosecutors, is strengthened both by a decision of the Review Court and by an important technical report signed by several experts, including the well-known pathologist Cristina Cattaneo.
Article published on 12 October 2020 - 13:37
