Certainties and doubts about the death of Antonio Masia, the worker found lifeless on July 25, 2022 in the Gesam waste disposal plant in Truncu Reale in Sassari. Yesterday's preliminary hearing in court, as requested by the preliminary hearing judge Sergio De Luca, focused on the testimonies of the coroner and a colleague of Masia, the last to have seen him alive. Hearings requested by the judge to examine the possible responsibility of Fabiano Mario Saba, accused of manslaughter, and another employee of the facility.
The coroner emphasized the presence of dorsal hypostases on the body, a factor that leads him to believe that death could not have occurred more than six hours after the photos were taken by the scientific police on Masia's lifeless body that showed signs of "crushing". The hypostases, the professional reports, were formed already three hours after the post-mortem and this creates a time gap beyond, and before, which the disappearance of the fifty-year-old could not have occurred. A detail that could change the evaluation of the time of death and with it also the compatibility of the presence of the accused at the place where the tragedy occurred.
No signs of defense on the body, and this would exclude a violent death by voluntary act for the coroner . Masia's colleague then reported that on the day, at the site, there was not only the "merlo" vehicle, with the key inserted, but also a forklift near the press. Finally, a third was in the cardboard sector. For Saba, the prosecutor Maria Paola Asara had already requested acquittal with a doubtful formula, a request that the preliminary hearing judge had opposed, ordering the investigations carried out yesterday. The further discussion will be held in March.
The defendant is defended by the lawyer Luca Sciaccaluga, while the civil parties are represented by the lawyers Daniele Alicicco and Francesca Fiori.