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A 16-year-old boy has been taken into custody after being charged with a fatal hit and run in which Deliveroo cyclist Thiago Osorio Cortes was killed in Dublin city center.
Cortés, 28, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was cycling along North Wall Quay when he was hit by a car around 10:30 pm on August 31.
Mr. Cortés, who was a student, was delivering food for Deliveroo at the time of the crash.
He was taken by ambulance to Mater Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Gardai had asked for witnesses and had also recovered a light gray Ford Focus during his investigation.
A teenager was arrested on Friday and detained at Store Street Garda Station under section four of the Criminal Justice Act of 1984. He appeared in an evening session of the Dublin District Court on Saturday, charged with dangerous driving that caused death. of Mr. Cortés and failing to report the occurrence of an injury to Gardai.
He was placed on remand at the Oberstown Detention Center and will appear again in Children’s Court on Tuesday.
He cannot be named because he is a minor.
Article 93 of the Juvenile Law establishes that no report will be published or included in a transmission that reveals the name, address or school of any child involved in the process or that includes any data that could lead to the identification of any child involved in the process. .
More than 100 people attended a vigil in Dublin to commemorate Mr. Cortés two days after his death.
Mr. Cortes has lived in Dublin with his fiancee Theresa Dantas for the past two years and was studying English. It is understood that he was saving money to study an MBA at the time of his death.
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