Updated on 03/21/2022 at 11:13 am
- In the Lake Garda trial, the court in Brescia has passed a verdict.
- The two Germans were each sentenced to several years in prison.
- On June 19 last year, shortly before midnight, their luxury motorboat crashed into a small wooden boat near the west bank, killing a couple.
In the trial following the fatal boat accident on Lake Garda in Italy, the court in Brescia sentenced the two accused Germans to prison terms. The boat driver gets four years and six months and the boat owner two years and eleven months, judge Mauroernesto Macca said on Monday in the northern Italian city.
the The two 52-year-old Munich residents collided shortly before midnight on June 19 near the western shore of the lake with the wooden boat belonging to a local Italian couple. 37-year-old Umberto Garzarella and his girlfriend Greta Nedrotti (25) died.
The Germans testified in court at the end of February that they had not noticed that they had collided with a boat during the night. Instead, they assumed flotsam. The men were charged with manslaughter and failure to provide assistance. The verdict is not yet legally binding. (dpa/ari)
In southern Belgium, a carnival celebration has turned into a tragedy. A car crashed into a crowd early in the morning. The circumstances were initially unclear. According to the public prosecutor’s office, however, there is no evidence of a terrorist background.
