Six officers belonging to the carabinieri and the Olbia police took the witness stand today in the context of the trial in which Davide Iannelli is accused before the Assizes Court of Sassari. The 48-year-old is accused of having burned alive Toni Cozzolino , 49, from Olbia, his neighbor, who died of severe burns, after spending 10 days in hospital.

The officers have reconstructed the methodology of the investigations following the fact that took place on May 11 last year in via Petta, an aggression for which the prosecutor charges Iannelli with premeditated murder aggravated by cruelty.

The 48-year-old, who is in prison in Bancali, is the companion of Rosa Bechere , the woman who disappeared from Olbia several months ago and of whom a violent death is suspected, even if the search is still ongoing.

Iannelli's defense lawyers, Cristina and Abele Cherchi, contested the failure to search their client's home and car, believing that there would have been evidence of the presence of cigarettes that the defendant smoked, which is why he was possession of a lighter at the time of the attack on Cozzolino.

A detail, that of the lighter, considered by the prosecution to be very relevant: for the prosecutor, Iannelli did not smoke and would therefore have had a lighter with him used to ignite the flames that killed his rival, precisely to carry out his alleged homicidal intent.

In the next hearing, scheduled for October 3, Cozzolino's widow, Magdalena Murawska, will also be heard, together with six other witnesses.

(Unioneonline/ss)