Novara, “the driver became impatient, accelerated and ignored halt”: the reconstruction of the investigators

The driver, arrested for having hit and killed the trade unionist during this morning’s demonstration in Biandrate (Novara) “impatient with waiting, suddenly engaged the entrance lane in the wrong direction, moving the vehicle with repeated accelerations, despite the demonstrators being in front of the vehicle, and therefore clearly visible from the passenger compartment “. This is the reconstruction of the carabinieri of the provincial command of Novara and of the police on the events that took place this morning. Investigators recall that this morning, starting at around 7 am, a representation “of about 15 members of Os Si Cobas, as part of the state of agitation announced at national level, presented themselves in front of the entrance of the Lidl distribution center in Biandrate ( Novara) intending to lodge complaints against the company, articulated in impromptu acts of disturbance “. At about 7.30,” while the union activists stationed in front of the entrances of the Lidl branch, a driver who works on behalf of a company appointed by Lidl , who was in a queue behind other vehicles inside the distribution center area on the exit lane, impatient with waiting, suddenly engaged the entrance lane in the wrong direction, moving the vehicle with repeated accelerations, despite the demonstrators being in front to the vehicle, and therefore clearly visible from the passenger compartment “. The demonstrators, having no intention of moving, remained in front of the vehicle, shouting and clapping with their hands on the cab, instructing the driver not to continue the march. At the same time, staff of the Digos of the State Police of Novara, present on the spot, realizing what was happening and the danger, he made every effort “in every way, including physically by showing his identification card, to order the driver to stop immediately”. “The vehicle, ignoring all warnings – the investigators know – continued its march, proceeding ‘jerkily’, in order to gain the exit, and, having passed the gates, made a right curve to get onto the roadway, forcing the demonstrators present in front of the vehicle to make sudden movements, so as not to be overwhelmed “. During the turn to the right of the truck,” the person in charge for the province of Novara of the basic union name Si Cobas, who was in front of the vehicle together with the others demonstrators, for reasons still to be ascertained in detail, “ended up on the ground and was run over” by the wheels on the right side of the vehicle, which, without stopping “continued the march,” moving away from the place at high speed “. Digos gave first aid and then set off in pursuit of the Tir, which by now had gained a considerable distance. The driver of the vehicle, once he reached the “Novara Ovest” motorway tollbooth of the A4 motorway, made a call to 112 Nue “in fact constituting himself” and was reached “by a crew of the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Novara “that stopped him.