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Milan Hit-and-Run: Police Detain 29-Year-Old After Elderly Pedestrian Killed

Investigators used CCTV, rental records, phone data to detain a 29-year-old suspected in the fatal hit-and-run.

Overview

  • Franco Bertolotti, 86, was struck on a marked crosswalk in via Fratelli Bronzetti and died shortly after arriving at Policlinico.
  • The vehicle was a rented white Citroën Berlingo later found abandoned about three kilometers away with front-end damage.
  • Police traced the suspect through surveillance footage, rental-company records and phone-location leads, detaining him in Segrate.
  • The 29-year-old of Egyptian origin faces detention on suspicion of vehicular homicide and failure to assist, with custody decisions and forensic tests pending.
  • Public concern over road safety intensified as a 12-year-old was critically injured by a van in Vigentino and a 9-year-old was hurt in a separate hit-and-run the same evening, with local groups organizing calls for safer streets.