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.