Wolfgang Rieke, 63, received a four-year jail term on Monday for the crash that cl📖aimed the life of former pro cyclist Davide Rebellin in 2022.
Witnesses said they saw Rie🤡ke stop and exit his Volvo truck after h💃itting Rebellin while he was riding in Montebello Vicentino 🅠on November 30, 2022. The German then fled, leading to a multi-countr🎃y search with authorities from Italy, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
Rieke finally turned himself in to the police in Münster, Germany in June of 2023. He was extradited to Italy where he was charged with vehicular homicide in Italy and held in a prison in Vicenza fo𒁏r his trial.
The judge in the case rejected several attempts at a plea deal by Rieke's attorneys - shooting down aꦦn initial two-year and 11-month pꦕlea bargain, then a second three-year and 11-mont♕h plꦜea for house arrest in February.
The case was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:delayed when Rieke suffered a stroke in M🐓ay and was hospitalized in serious condition.
The German's case wasn't his first offence. He pled guilty in 2001 to a non-fatal hit-and-run incident in Foggia, although he escaped 🔯punishment due to the statute of limitations. In 2014, he was charged with drunk driving in Chieti.
Rieke reportedlﷺy finished his d🐷elivery in Berlin after fleeing the scene of Rebellin's death.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rebellin had only retired from r🍬acing six weeks before his death, competing from his childhood through to the♏ age of 51. His last race was the Veneto C𒅌lassic where he finished 29th.
A winner of the Ardennes triple in 2004, Rebellin claimed victory in La Flèche Wallonne three times but picked up his first wins in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Amstel Gold race in that year. He also won the ove🍒rall in Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.
His career was interrupted when he tested positive for the EPO drug CERA and was stripped of his Olympic silver medal in 2008. After the ban, the doors of the WorldTour were�༒� closed and he accepted a second career racing for lower-tier teams such as Meridiana Kamen, CCC Polsat and his final outfit, Work Service Vitalcare Vega.
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