Dead after the chase: 'The tests deny the police version'

The version of events told by the police ''is not compatible' with the first technical investigations. This is claimed by the engineer Simone Cipriani, appointed by the Aosta prosecutor's office to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident in which Davide Suvilla, 43 years old, resident in the Milan area, died on 27 April at the end of a chase with the police. The event occurred along state road 26, in Chatillon.

From the consultant's advance information, Suvilla could not have jumped out of the cockpit of the vehicle while it was still moving. The truck - the expert found - is equipped with a manual gearbox and reverse gear can be engaged with the engine off, by moving the lever which remains locked. This operation cannot be carried out with the vehicle running, as the lever would not allow the gearbox to remain in reverse. Therefore, according to the consultant, it is not possible that the victim jumped out of the truck to escape arrest, as written in the documents by the police.

In the next few weeks, all the advice will be filed. We are also awaiting a second medical-legal report, by Roberto Testi, on a circular wound found on the victim's side. The five police officers on duty at the Aosta Police Headquarters are under investigation for vehicular homicide, but their position could worsen. Suvilla had been chased after stealing a quarry truck from a construction site in Verrayes. The two accomplices managed to escape, but were arrested shortly afterwards on the motorway, at the Quincinetto toll booth.