The man was traveling at 90 kilometers per hour in an urban area, did not brake and fled without stopping
By surrendering himself to the traffic police he had initially avoided arrest, because the danger of escape had disappeared. But, ten days later, Nour Amdouni ended up in prison, the twenty-year-old who in the late evening of Tuesday 9 August, near the intersection between Via Bartolini and Monte Ceneri, in the Milanese suburbs, overwhelmed and killed the little Mohanad, twelve years not yet completed, while he was playing with his bicycle waiting for his father to finish working in his restaurant-pizzeria.
That evening Amdouni was driving a green Smart owned by a Swiss company, without a license (never obtained), after having used drugs and with a broken leg in plaster. At the request of prosecutor Rosario Ferracane, he ended up in prison on charges of aggravated road murder. According to local police investigations, when he ran over little Mohanad Abdalla Salem Moubarak, he was driving at ninety kilometers per hour on a city road that has a fifty-five limit. And after having overwhelmed him, he did not even stop to help the victim: “he did not care in the least – not even out of human pity – about the boy’s fate” reads the statement from the prosecutor Marcello Viola.
When, only three and a half hours after the violent impact, which “lacerated the child’s body” and destroyed his bicycle as well as the Smart, the twenty-year-old presented himself to the traffic police, he did so “with all evidence”, they put black on the investigators were white, due to “a very precise opportunistic and strategic calculation” explaining “his escape as a consequence of the panic crisis that had seized him”. In support of the accusations against him, the magistrates list “the very serious driving behavior, having got behind the wheel of the car without ever having obtained a license, in a state of psycho-physical alteration resulting from the use of drugs, the ‘having driven the vehicle at high speed and even in the presence of a further physical impediment linked to the fact of having a leg in plaster ยป. But also, they underline, “the lucidity demonstrated” in the flight which “denotes a high social danger and his unequivocal incapacity for self-control”. Aggravated, moreover, by previous troubles with the law.
Ten days later, the desperate screams of Mohanad’s father remain, from a life in Italy and a widower for a year, who heard the first sirens approach as he finished cleaning his restaurant. He ran into the street. At the corner she recognized his son’s shoe: there was nothing more for him to do.
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