"I pray that the bones found are not my husband's: after almost four years of waiting and pain, I still have the hope of being able to embrace him again". Caterina Deiana is the wife of Pietro Arrius , a 67-year-old pensioner from Arbus who disappeared in May 2019 at the Montevecchio mining site. "Until they find a body that is clearly identified, I will continue to wait for his return or for someone to tell me where he is," assures the woman on the phone shortly after reading the news of the discovery of some bone fragments under a rock in the countryside in Cumbua. «My husband – says the woman with her voice broken by tears -. they have to look for him alive. A long period of suffering, a slow agony, cannot end with the discovery of a few bones and the rest of the body vanishing into thin air».
The memory
Yesterday morning, the whole village recalled Arbus's latest disappearance and a story that mobilized relatives, friends, voluntary associations and the forces of order who searched for him for a long time and without success. «For days and days - recalls the president of the Civil Protection Jonathan Concas - we sifted through every corner of the village, starting from the town, right where Pietro Arrius was seen for the last time. It wasn't easy. We are talking about an extended location, with dense vegetation and rocky areas. Everything useless. The area where the bones were found has also been explored. In the end we gave up." The thread of hope to arrive at the truth has not yet broken. «Sad episodes – says the mayor Paolo Salis – that we would like to never happen again. It's something to deliver bones to family members. It means giving a burial to the loved one, a place to bring a flower».
