«Ilaria speaks few words, follows a speech therapy and physiotherapy programme. After the immediate drama there is still a lot to do, he still doesn't remember but repeats the phrase "Dad killed". The hope is that she can recover and continue to live with her children."
The testimony in the courtroom of Giusy Saladdino, Ilaria's sister and daughter of the spouses Basilio Saladdino and Liliana Mancusa, murdered on 26 February 2022 by Fulvio Baule, the 41-year-old bricklayer from Ploaghe, in prison on charges of double aggravated murder and attempted murder against his wife.
Before the judges of the Court of Assizes of Sassari presided over by Massimo Zaniboni, Giusy spoke of the relations that had become difficult between the Baule and Saladdino families. She did it while looking at the murderer's face, she was moved, but with determination she continued explaining the facts. Ilaria's face still shows the signs of the brutal attack she suffered, but also the suffering from the terrible trauma she suffered.
“He has a very visible shoulder injury, a wound he still suffers from,” added Giusy, addressing the prosecutor, Enrica Angioni who asked for his deposition together with 4 other witnesses. He wanted to tell the judges some episodes, signs of a relationship between the two that was deteriorating.
«Mariella, my twin sister, alerted the police a few months before the murder because on the phone with Ilaria, she could hear her husband Baule, angry with her, threatening to break her cell phone», explains Giusy. «In those days Ilaria had noticed that the video surveillance system in their home in Ploaghe was not working, and she was afraid that something could happen to her. They slept in separate rooms, several times she woke up in the night to find her husband next to the bed looking at her strangely. He told me "if something serious were to happen to me, take care of the children".
It all started on the day of the twins' baptism. followed by insults and swear words. Since then I had blocked all telephone and direct contact with them." Then Fulvio and Ilaria decide to rely on the psychological path to attempt reconciliation. « Giusy «and the analyst replied that that did not represent a way to get closer to the wife".
