On their way back from Porto Torres, Franco Piras, 45, from Bari Sardo, and his shepherd servant Francesco Palmas (45), from Jerzu, stopped in Villanova Strisaili , near the house where Marco Sulis (36), a worker originally from the hamlet, lives. It was 6.56 pm on March 30, 48 hours after the attack on the Aurelia. An intermediate stop on the return journey to Bari Sardo .
The reverse route, from Bari Sardo to Villanova Strisaili, took place the following day. Same destination, different time (10:30). "The meetings are evidently connected to the communication to Sulis by Palmas and Piras of the checks and searches to which the latter had been subjected ." This is what the investigating judge of the Court of Livorno, Antonio Del Forno, wrote on the precautionary custody order to which they are the recipients, together with eight other people.
IN THE CROSSHAIRS – The identification of Piras and Palmas themselves in the farmhouse of their friend Antonio Moni (46, originally from Orune) in Castelnuovo Val di Cecina was fundamental, an area where in the early hours of the morning of the day after the assault the Carabinieri carried out a check in the Paganina area. Having left Tuscany, the two men from Bari Sardo and Jerzu embarked from Genoa on March 29. They reached the island aboard the Moby Aki ferry but there were teams of soldiers waiting for them who subjected them to the stub test. Not only that . With the go-ahead from the investigating magistrate, during the search they applied an environmental bug to the Fiat Ducato .
THE COUPLES – The four men from Ogliastra, according to the reconstruction of the Livorno prosecutor, moved separately, in pairs of two . With the variant of the third accomplice, Renzo Cherchi (39, from Irgoli) following the Fois-Sulis duo . In the months preceding the attack, there were numerous crossings to Tuscany, always by ship and always with the same (tested) tandems.
