The Prosecutor's Office is investigating voluntary homicide.
With a long and reasoned order read in the courtroom, this morning the judge of the Court of Nuoro Alessandra Ponti sent the documents of the trial for the death of Antonello Mereu, which occurred in a marble quarry in Orosei on 13 March 2014 in what happened thought it was an accident at work.
The boy was found lying on the ground with a pool of blood and a hole on the back of his head. Taken to hospital in agony, he died 24 hours later. For nine years in the courtrooms there has been talk of a failure to comply with workplace safety regulations, with the theory that the worker was hit by a rod that accidentally hooked onto a diamond wire cutting a block of marble.
Giovanni Mele, owner of the company for which the victim worked, and two employees, Sergio Floris and Ignazio Masala, were put on trial for manslaughter, defended by lawyers Basilio Brodu, Gianfranco Mattana, Fabio Serra, Pasqualino Moi and Giovanni Colli. However, Mereu's death during the trial opened a mystery: ten years after his death, the Court's report speaks of murder.
Today after the discussion between the parties, where the family is a civil party through the lawyers Pietro Salis and Monica Macciotta reiterated that they do not believe in the murder. But the ordinance disqualifies the event as a completely different event. The judge, leaving every avenue open, ordered the transmission of the documents to the Prosecutor's Office to investigate for voluntary homicide.
