It is Erik Masala, 26 years old, from Cagliari, the inmate found lifeless in a cell of the Bancali prison, in Sassari .
The news of his death was made public by the Guarantor, Irene Testa, who spoke openly of "suicide which constitutes a failure of judicial and penitentiary policy". But clarity has yet to be clarified regarding the death of the twenty-six-year-old and his last hours: in fact, it is not certain that it was a voluntary gesture.
This is why now the lawyer, Riccardo Floris, has asked for investigations into the circumstances that led to the young man's death. According to the lawyer, suicide would be "very strange". Then he clarifies: «He never gave me any signs that might suggest he wanted to take his own life. We spoke often because he wanted to be transferred to Cagliari as soon as possible: his last child had recently been born but he hadn't yet had the opportunity to recognize him." Adding shadows to the death are the suspicious signs that the family members, called to identify the body, would have noticed on the boy's body .
Masala had recently been the subject of a series of news events. In January he had agreed to a three-year plea agreement at the end of a trial in which he had been charged with very serious injuries: the previous June in via Seruci he had hit his rival Maurizio Castangia with the machete, with whom he had had an argument shortly before. It had almost amputated his arm. Then he fled: before handing himself over to the police, he barricaded himself in a house and threatened to blow up the building with a gas cylinder.
At the beginning of the year his name appeared on the list of suspects for an alleged drug dealing network between Capoterra and Cagliari.
(Unioneonline)