Giulia Bongiorno, defence
attorney for the parents of Gaia Vonfreymann, one of two
16-year-old girls knocked down and killed by a film director's
son in the centre of the city before Christmas, on Monday called
for respect for the victims and their families.
"This isn't a video game; there are two dead girls, two girls
in flesh and blood, and four parents who, in the face of what is
happening, every day feel their pain amplified," former minister
Bongiorno told Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
She called on the public and the media to "resist the
temptation to treat these girls as if they are characters in a
TV show".
Investigators are using surveillance footage from the site of
the crash to help determine what happened.
Pietro Genovese, the 20-year-old son of director Paolo, is
currently under house arrest and is accused of vehicular
homicide.
The girls are thought to have tried to cross the very busy
road despite the pedestrian-crossing light being red.
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