A Roman man who ran over and killed
two 16-year-old girls in Rome in December 2019 was released from
prison Thursday pending a surveillance court0's ruling on how
and where he will serve the remaining three years and seven
months of his five year and four month sentence for multiple
vehicular homicide, judicial sources said.
Pietro Genovese, the 21-year-old son of Italian film director
Paolo Genovese, was convicted in the deaths of Gaia Von
Freymann and Camilla Romagnoli.
He maintained that he had set off along Corso Francia
after the light had turned green, and the girls were crossing
the main Roman thoroughfare on a red pedestrian light.
The girls are thought to have tried to cross the very busy
road near the upscale Parioli district despite the
pedestrian-crossing light being red.
The young man reportedly tested positive for alcohol.
A prosecutor said he was driving too fast, at about 80 km an
hour.
But the girls were also said to have been "rash" in trying to
cross the busy road.
The case shocked Italy.
Autopsy results showed Genovese's car caved in the girls'
skulls, killing them instantly.
Paolo Genovese is best known for his 2016 film Perfect
Strangers, which won the Best Screenplay in an International
Narrative Feature Film Award at the Tribeca
Film Festival and was awarded best film at the David di
Donatello Awards, Italy's Oscars.
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