With the confirmation of the no need to proceed "because the fact does not exist", the last chapter of the story of the alleged theft of the Sardinians' DNA also closed today in Cagliari, for which the geneticist Mario Pirastu had been investigated together with twelve others people.

«The proceedings - reconstructs his defense lawyer Giovanni Battista Gallus - had first seen the acquittal, in January 2020, of SharDna's bankruptcy trustee, judged with an abbreviated procedure, and, subsequently, there had been the separation, due to some notification problems , in two separate proceedings".

In the first, the Lanusei magistrate, Mariano Arca, had declared there was no place to prosecute eleven suspects, for a series of facts connected to the alleged "subtraction" of DNA portions and the processing of personal data within the Genos park. The prosecutor had appealed only against Simona Vaccargiu. The appeal, however, was declared inadmissible by the second instance judges of Cagliari due to lateness, with a ruling dated 7 June, and consequent confirmation of the non-procedure.

In July 2021, at the end of the second proceeding, in which only Mario Pirastu was investigated, the Lanusei magistrate, Paola Murru, also declared there was no place to proceed, for all the contested crimes.

The prosecutor then lodged an appeal, solely for the complaint connected to the alleged "theft" of the DNA.

«Today has arrived the epilogue of a long and complex affair - underlines the lawyer Gallus - which also saw the intervention of the Privacy Guarantor and which had a wide echo, including nationally: the Court of Appeal of Cagliari, II section, chaired by Tiziana Marogna, accepted my arguments and rejected the prosecutor's appeal, confirming the ruling of no place to proceed. The reasons will be known in thirty days."

(Unioneonline/lf)