24-year-old woman run over and killed in Porto Cervo on pedestrian crossing: autopsy on 16 July
At the wheel was Vivian Spohr, wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr. They are already back in Germany.
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She has already returned to Germany Vivian Spohr, the 51-year-old German tourist accused of running over and killing a 28-year-old girl, Gaia Costa, from Tempio Pausania, on a pedestrian crossing in Porto Cervo. The well-known businesswoman in Germany is - as reported by some online newspapers - the wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, the 58-year-old German manager at the helm of the airline since 2014.
On Tuesday, the German tourist was driving a Bmw X5 SUV in the company of her daughter when she ran over the young Tempio Pausania girl in the centre of Porto Cervo, on the Costa Smeralda. A 118 ambulance arrived on the scene and the doctors tried to revive the girl for about 20 minutes, but she did not make it: the trauma to the head was too severe. The car was impounded, the investigation is still ongoing with the acquisition of surveillance camera footage.
The German newspaper Bild published the words of Vivian Spohr's lawyer: 'The exact circumstances are now being investigated. The Spohr family has expressed its deepest sympathy to the victim's family'. Vivian Spohr has already returned to Germany. Together with her husband Carsten Spohr, CEO of Lufthansa, she was at her holiday home near Porto Cervo.
Autopsia on 16 July
It will be forensic scientist Alberto Chighine who will perform the autopsy on the body of Gaia Costa, the 24-year-old Tempio Pausania girl who was run over and killed last Tuesday while crossing the zebra crossing in Via Aga Khan, in the centre of Porto Cervo. The task, entrusted by the Tempio Pausania Public Prosecutor's Office, will be carried out on Wednesday 16 July.
Vivian Spohr is assisted by lawyer Angelo Merlini, while Gaia Costa's family has entrusted their legal representation to lawyer Antonello Desini.
