Man who ran over and killed 2 girls released pending ruling

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 21 - A Roman man who ran over and killed two 16-year-old girls in Rome in December 2019 was released from prison Thursday pending a surveillance court0's ruling on how and where he will serve the remaining three years and seven months of his five year and four month sentence for multiple vehicular homicide, judicial sources said.
    Pietro Genovese, the 21-year-old son of Italian film director Paolo Genovese, was convicted in the deaths of Gaia Von Freymann and Camilla Romagnoli.
    He maintained that he had set off along Corso Francia after the light had turned green, and the girls were crossing the main Roman thoroughfare on a red pedestrian light.
    The girls are thought to have tried to cross the very busy road near the upscale Parioli district despite the pedestrian-crossing light being red.
    The young man reportedly tested positive for alcohol.
    A prosecutor said he was driving too fast, at about 80 km an hour.
    But the girls were also said to have been "rash" in trying to cross the busy road.
    The case shocked Italy.
    Autopsy results showed Genovese's car caved in the girls' skulls, killing them instantly.
    Paolo Genovese is best known for his 2016 film Perfect Strangers, which won the Best Screenplay in an International Narrative Feature Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded best film at the David di Donatello Awards, Italy's Oscars. (ANSA).