A massacre of cyclistsmowed down by a car, happened 12 years ago in Calabriato Lamezia Terme: in eight died mowed down by a Mercedes that swooped down on the group. Driving the car was a young man who was immediately arrested, Chafik Elketani, a 21-year-old Moroccan citizen, who was under the influence of narcotic substances and without a license that had been withdrawn seven months earlier for a risky overtaking. And always an overtaking, the reliefs ascertained, was at the origin of the Lamezia massacre: according to the reconstruction made by the investigators, the driver of the Mercedes was overtaking a car at a high speed when he crossed frontally the group of amateur cyclists traveling in the opposite direction . The impact was devastating.
The victims were between 35 and 58 years old. For the massacre, Elketani served eight years in prison. Elketani was arrested again eleven years after the massacre, in 2021, again for a fatal road accident: he was accused of road murder in relation to the accident in which he was involved months before and in which a Moroccan citizen who was traveling with him by car died. .
Source: Ansa
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