Who would have taught such outcome is even possible?
Surprised pikachu face…/s
Pordenone, the US soldier who ran over and killed a 15-year-old boy was drunk
The woman tested positive for alcohol, four times over the permitted limit: but will probably not be prosecuted in Italy.
The position of the 20-year-old woman on duty at the USAF Base is worsening: the American soldier who ran over and killed a 15-year-old boy on the night between Saturday and Sunday in Porcia (Pordenone) was drunk.
The alcohol test was positive: the blood alcohol level was 2.09 grams per litre, four times the permitted limit. The indictment against the young woman did not change radically, but her position worsened. The woman had run over Giovanni Zanier five kilometres away from home, in Porcia (Pordenone), while she was returning from the discotheque with two peers. The female soldier stopped but was arrested, and is under house arrest at the military base in Aviano. Although in all probability the crime of road homicide will go unpunished and without compensation.
The commander of the 31st Fighter Wing, Brigadier General Tad D. Clark, expressed ‘his heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’. The general added: ‘We extend our thoughts and prayers to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’.
The fact that she is a soldier at the USAF base in Aviano puts the US soldier in a position to avoid trial in Italy. This is what the 1951 London Convention on the jurisdiction of NATO soldiers in Europe provides for, and this has already been the case over and over again, before and after the well-known case of the Cermis cable car disaster.
In the meantime, however, the preliminary investigations are proceeding.
The setback, assuming there is interest in asking for it, will come at the time of prosecution. “It is the Italian Minister of Justice who can, at the discretion or at the request of the American base, invoke the lack of jurisdiction and thus allow the US suspect to be tried in his own country,” explains the Pordenone prosecutor, Raffaele Tito, confirming the exceptionality of trials of American military personnel. ‘I don’t remember any,’ he states. And indeed, one has to dig into the past to find controversial situations. In 2002, the case of an airman from the Aviano base accused, with three Albanians, of sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl caused controversy. The then Minister of Justice signed the waiver of trial in Italy, but then, in the face of protests from the girl’s lawyer, backed down. Since then, exceptions aside, the accusations and arrests have been followed by quite a few dismissals.
Does anybody know how common it is for US military personnel to get charged in the US for such crimes committed in foreign countries? If she gets send home without getting punished in Italy will she face a vehicular manslaughter and DUI case in the US?
the title makes it sound like they dont prosecute people for things they did while being drunk in Italy
> The commander of the 31st Fighter Wing, Brigadier General Tad D. Clark, expressed ‘his heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’. The general added: ‘We extend our thoughts and prayers to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’.
Fuck your thoughts and prayers, useless as always. What about justice, what about compensation?
She had a BAC of .209% or about 2.5 times US alcohol limits though it seems Italy has a .05% limit instead of .08% hence the 4 times number in the article.
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Who would have taught such outcome is even possible?
Surprised pikachu face…/s
Pordenone, the US soldier who ran over and killed a 15-year-old boy was drunk
The woman tested positive for alcohol, four times over the permitted limit: but will probably not be prosecuted in Italy.
The position of the 20-year-old woman on duty at the USAF Base is worsening: the American soldier who ran over and killed a 15-year-old boy on the night between Saturday and Sunday in Porcia (Pordenone) was drunk.
The alcohol test was positive: the blood alcohol level was 2.09 grams per litre, four times the permitted limit. The indictment against the young woman did not change radically, but her position worsened. The woman had run over Giovanni Zanier five kilometres away from home, in Porcia (Pordenone), while she was returning from the discotheque with two peers. The female soldier stopped but was arrested, and is under house arrest at the military base in Aviano. Although in all probability the crime of road homicide will go unpunished and without compensation.
The commander of the 31st Fighter Wing, Brigadier General Tad D. Clark, expressed ‘his heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’. The general added: ‘We extend our thoughts and prayers to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’.
The fact that she is a soldier at the USAF base in Aviano puts the US soldier in a position to avoid trial in Italy. This is what the 1951 London Convention on the jurisdiction of NATO soldiers in Europe provides for, and this has already been the case over and over again, before and after the well-known case of the Cermis cable car disaster.
In the meantime, however, the preliminary investigations are proceeding.
The setback, assuming there is interest in asking for it, will come at the time of prosecution. “It is the Italian Minister of Justice who can, at the discretion or at the request of the American base, invoke the lack of jurisdiction and thus allow the US suspect to be tried in his own country,” explains the Pordenone prosecutor, Raffaele Tito, confirming the exceptionality of trials of American military personnel. ‘I don’t remember any,’ he states. And indeed, one has to dig into the past to find controversial situations. In 2002, the case of an airman from the Aviano base accused, with three Albanians, of sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl caused controversy. The then Minister of Justice signed the waiver of trial in Italy, but then, in the face of protests from the girl’s lawyer, backed down. Since then, exceptions aside, the accusations and arrests have been followed by quite a few dismissals.
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Does anybody know how common it is for US military personnel to get charged in the US for such crimes committed in foreign countries? If she gets send home without getting punished in Italy will she face a vehicular manslaughter and DUI case in the US?
the title makes it sound like they dont prosecute people for things they did while being drunk in Italy
> The commander of the 31st Fighter Wing, Brigadier General Tad D. Clark, expressed ‘his heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’. The general added: ‘We extend our thoughts and prayers to the young victim’s family and the Italian community’.
Fuck your thoughts and prayers, useless as always. What about justice, what about compensation?
She had a BAC of .209% or about 2.5 times US alcohol limits though it seems Italy has a .05% limit instead of .08% hence the 4 times number in the article.
Of course she won’t. See similar cases: [Teo Peter](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teo_Peter), [Harry Dunn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn). Nothing will happen those who are guilty.