Sandro Arzu 's last movements were immortalized by a camera installed at the exit of the town. The 54-year-old from Arzana was filmed by the electronic eye while, driving his Opel Corsa, he was passing along the peripheral roads. The direction taken by the driver remains shrouded in mystery. Of which, one month to yesterday, traces have been lost. Investigators have identified the small car, which almost certainly someone found eight days after the owner's disappearance along the Su Pradu firebreak, but not the telephone, which already after 7.30 pm (the indicative time when all traces were lost of man) was turned off. User unreachable, silent signal. The investigative activities of the Carabinieri of the Nuoro investigative nucleus, coordinated by the prosecutor Rita Cariello of the Cagliari District Anti-Mafia Directorate, focus on the telephone signal, with the analysis of the cells hooked up to the repeaters of the town, and on the testimonies of various people, both of the family nucleus that are unrelated to the area, heard in recent weeks.
Tight investigations
Sandro Arzu, convict, served 26 years in prison for murder, currently with the weight of an 18-year sentence in the first instance for drug trafficking (the appeal will open in June), was a methodical person. On the morning of that 8 March he duly showed up at the barracks to sign the register pursuant to the obligation to stay established by the judge some time ago. All as usual. Arzu was respectful of that provision, so much so that the magistrate authorized motivated travel. His day passed in full routine. In the evening, his elderly mother was waiting for him at home. Sandro Arzu had never missed dinner. Just the failure to return at the usual times that evening made the family suspicious. Who immediately got in touch with the carabinieri communicating the anomaly. From that moment the searches started, without excluding any hypothesis from the initial stages. Voluntary removal or murder? The investigators assumed the crime of murder. Supported, extremely, by the elements found on the occasion of the discovery of the Opel Corsa. The small car was found riddled with bullets between the left door pillar and the windshield. Two shots from close range with the result of two tight patterns. Microtraces of blood inside the vehicle. The droplets, as well as other biological traces, are now being analyzed in the RIS laboratories which will have to compare them with Sandro Arzu's DNA.
The searches
The Opel Corsa, at least according to an initial reconstruction by the investigators, would have arrived on the fire strip through the entrance that precedes the Monte Idolo forestry site. This is because transit on the other road that runs along the ridge is prohibitive for cars. In recent days, in addition to the soldiers of the Lanusei company, the carabinieri of the dog-loving nucleus of Bologna also intervened in Monte Idolo and unleashed Bayla, the dog who, with the gps tight on his collar, sniffed everywhere, making his experience available in the field which, in other cases, had given a positive turn to search operations. Bayla sifted through the woods, but did not intercept blood traces or human remains attributable to Sandro Arzu.
Robert Secci
