Since the early hours of the day, the Special Operations Group of the Carabinieri, with the executive support of the provincial Carabinieri commands of Nuoro and Livorno, the Scientific Investigations Group of Cagliari, the Cacciatori Sardegna helicopter squadron, and the 11th Carabinieri helicopter unit of Cagliari, carried out around twenty house searches, under the coordination of the Rome District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office . The searches involved as many individuals, under investigation, on various counts, for the crime of procuring the aggravated breach of sentence by mafia methods in favor of the fugitive Attilio Cubeddu. In essence, aiding and abetting.

The latter has been wanted since 1997 for failing to return, after expiring a permit, to the Badu 'e Carros prison, where he was being held for kidnapping and other crimes.

Along with other associates, he had participated in several kidnappings for extortion in Tuscany and Emilia Romagna in the early 1980s, involving Cristina Peruzzi and Patrizia Bauer . He was later convicted for the kidnapping of Brescian businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini , committed during his first years as a fugitive.

Searches for highly dangerous fugitives are among the ROS's prerogatives, so the activities delegated to search for Cubeddu, at the head of the Ministry of the Interior's Special Search Program, are being extended throughout Italy by the military of the Group. The searches, conducted primarily in Ogliastra, were necessary to find evidence essential to the fugitive's capture. In particular, family members and individuals with various ties to Cubeddu were targeted. Investigations are also underway to acquire biological traces of the fugitive in order to establish his complete genetic profile.