Yellow is not closed, on the contrary. Another three months are needed, so that the French magistrates - who in turn are investigating for murder - complete and send to their Cagliari colleagues the investigations delegated on a European order, requested for some time by the owner of the file, the prosecutor Maria Virginia Boi.
New investigations
With these reasons, the investigating judge of Cagliari accepted the opposition to the request for dismissal of the investigation into the suicide of Richard Carrichon, 46, test driver of the "Superpuma" helicopters, found lifeless on 28 November three years ago in a hotel in the capital. A mysterious end on which the prosecutor had hypothesized "death as a consequence of another crime", but which in the end ended with a request for dismissal because the investigations delegated to the French investigators had not been completed.
The family
Presenting the complaint, with the lawyers Raffaele Cocco and Giovanni Domenico Melis, was Catherine Soldini, widow of the test engineer. At the end of the hearing to discuss the opposition to the filing request, the Gip Ferrarese ordered the Prosecutor to continue the investigations. Soon it will also be understood who will be the deputy prosecutor who will inherit the file, given that prosecutor Boi has been transferred to the Prosecutor's Office for Minors.
The intrigue
Many questions remain about the pilot's death: he could have been pushed to kill himself following threats and pressures related to a billionaire sale to Kuwait by France of those aircraft. The maiden voyage of transport of the vehicles had been a failure and disputes had arisen between Carrichon (who spoke of a "fiasco" and claimed that the order should be blocked), the buyers and the head of mission Robert Vincenti (according to whom instead everything was fine and problems were solvable, so much so that he wanted to sign a positive report, however rejected by Carrichon).
The team had stayed in Sardinia for a few days but one night the pilot was found dead, with various injuries on his body and after a series of strange and disturbing noises coming from his room that had prompted the neighbors to call the reception.
The murder investigation
In France an investigation is being carried out for "murder", while in Sardinia the investigations will continue after the decision of the Ferrarese judge to reject the request for dismissal. In detail, the Cagliari Public Prosecutor's Office sent two requests for a European investigation order to the French judiciary with a very detailed series of investigations to be carried out. The answer, which never came, will now have to be solicited again to complete the investigation and finally solve the mystery.
Francesco Pinna