First the immediate judgment, then the plea bargaining request, finally the choice of the shortened procedure in agreement with his lawyer Patrizio Rovelli. The 37-year-old Emilio Pozzolo from Cagliari, protagonist of the terrifying road accident that cost the life, at 4 pm on February 1st, of little Daniele Ulver (overwhelmed and killed just 15 months by the scooter driven by the accused while he was in the stroller pushed by his mother on the strips pedestrian of via Cadello), will appear before the judge of the preliminary hearings Elisabetta Patrito on October 14 to answer for road murder (according to the investigators he had started driving in a state of psycho-physical alteration resulting from the use of drugs, a thesis contested by defense, on the strength of his advice) and failure to help, the accusations challenged by the prosecutor Ginevra Grilletti.

Accident and escape

That day, based on the investigative reconstruction, the man had reached 70 kilometers per hour (the limit is 50), he had passed the cars stopped in front of the pedestrian crossing just to let the mother and child pass, headed for the park of Monte Claro, it had invaded the opposite lane and run over the stroller. "The scooter," said one of the drivers, "skimmed my car and passed the double stripe." Pozzolo, who was heading towards via Is Mirrionis, according to witnesses had "hit the stroller making it explode into a thousand pieces" and, having reached the intersection with via Pipia, had "made an inversion, slowed down and took a look at the accident". Then he ran away.

In front of the police

An hour later, convinced by the then defender Riccardo Floris to avoid an extreme gesture, he left his home in via Castelli, turned himself in to the police in viale Buoncammino and had the scooter found under the pilotis of a building in via Codroipo. to Tuvumannu. "I am desperate. I will never be able to rest, "he said to the commanders of Stradale and Municipale, recalling what had happened: the line of cars, the sun that had blinded him, the stroller, the child's body, fear and flight.

"I died with him"

Shortly after he was arrested by the investigating judge Roberto Cau. He was driving a friend's scooter despite not having a driver's license since 2017 due to an old conviction and there was a risk that he could commit other similar crimes. Then the measure was mitigated. He had not presented himself for questioning with the prosecutor, merely telling the defender that he "died with him", that is, with the little victim. Pozzolo is in turn the father of two children, the child's family relied on the lawyer Francesco Atzori. (an. m.)

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