Businesswoman placed under house arrest for Viareggio murder

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 11 - Cinzia Dal Pino, a 65-year-old businesswoman in the Tuscan coastal city of Viareggio, has been placed under house arrest on murder charges for allegedly repeatedly running over Said Makoun with her car on Sunday night.
    The 47-year-old Algerian national died after the hit-and-run incident on Sunday.
    A preliminary investigations judge (GIP) on Wednesday validated the arrest of the businesswoman who was detained in Pisa. Prosecutors had sought pre-trial detention in prison while the woman's defence attorney, Enrico Marzaduri, had asked for alternative measures to detention.
    Dal Pino is accused of hitting Malkoun on purpose with her car after he had stolen her bag.
    Investigative sources said video surveillance footage from a shop on the road where the hit-and-run incident took place showed the woman intentionally steering her car to hit the man, who was walking on a sidewalk, and then repeatedly running him over at a relatively slow pace.
    The sequence of the video, which lasts just over a minute, then shows Dal Pino getting off the car, taking back her purse and driving away, the sources said. (ANSA).