The Assize Court of Nuoro , presided over by Giorgio Cannas (with Alessandra Ponti as associate judge), sentenced Graziano Pinna, a breeder from Borore, and Giovanni Sanna, a breeder from Macomer, to 25 years of imprisonment.
The first-instance sentence comes 17 years after the lightning kidnapping of the director of the Intesa San Paolo bank in Orosei, Gian Paolo Cosseddu, and his wife, Pietrina Secce, which occurred between 3 and 4 October 2007.
According to the reconstruction, on the night of October 3, the bandits broke into the couple's home, holding them hostage. The following morning, October 4, they forced the director and his wife to go to the bank in Orosei to open the safe and hand over 40,000 euros.
"The evidence collected by the Nuoro Carabinieri against Pinna and Sanna is circumstantial in nature ," reiterated the prosecution supported by the prosecutor of the Cagliari DDA, Gilberto Ganassi , who requested a 25-year sentence. Among these, the telephone records and the confirmations obtained during the investigations, such as the nickname "Caporà", with which one of the bandits called his accomplice . This detail was memorized by one of the victims and later emerged among almost half a million wiretaps, linking the term to Pierpaolo Serra, (initially suspected and murdered a year after the kidnapping) and to Pinna.
Sanna's sudden financial availability was also considered relevant evidence: two days after the robbery he paid off a debt and bought a car for cash.
The defense, represented by Marialuisa Vernier for Pinna and Danilo Mattana for Sanna , contested the reconstruction of the prosecution, underlining the alibis provided, the inconsistencies that emerged during the trial and the difficulties in precisely reconstructing the facts that occurred many years ago.
