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.
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