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Salò in Italy: Forensic experts assess the damage to a boat (2021)
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After the fatal boat accident on Lake Garda in Italy, a court confirmed the prison sentences for the two defendants in the appeal process.
The two men were sentenced in the first instance in 2022 to prison sentences of four and a half years and two years and eleven months respectively.
The appeal court in Brescia ruled against reduced sentences for the two men from Bavaria demanded by the defense, as the Italian public broadcaster Rai reported.
The men were charged with negligent homicide and failure to provide assistance.
On June 19, 2021, the two Germans rammed the wooden boat of an Italian couple from the area with their luxury motorboat near Salò on Lake Garda in northern Italy.
37-year-old Umberto Garzarella and his girlfriend Greta Nedrotti, 25, died.
After the convictions, the Germans appealed in the first instance.
Italy's legal system has three instances.
It is possible that the two men's lawyers will appeal against the verdict again.
According to Italian media reports, after the first conviction in March 2022, the boat driver was able to leave house arrest just a few months later and was released.
It is still unclear whether and when the convicts will have to go to prison.
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