A twist in the trial for the murder of Gabio Longoni in Ogliastra . Shortly before the defense of Fabio Fois, the 57-year-old Girasole farmer accused of the crime and attempted murder of Giovanni Congiu, took the floor, the president of the Cagliari Court of Assizes Giovanni Massidda stopped him: "Excuse me, lawyer - he said - but today he won't be able to argue. The Court needs to reopen the investigation ".

In the last hearing the prosecutor Mazzeo and the civil parties spoke, with the prosecutor who had asked for a life sentence with daytime solitary confinement of 18 months for the accused.

Today it was the defense, the trial was in the final stages but the judges stopped everything. They want to reopen the investigation and hear a marble worker and the defense consultant who has made a study on the places and times of travel.

Probably the court wants to probe an alternative motive that does not concern the accused , which was initially taken into consideration in the investigation phase but was then abandoned by the Prosecutor's Office.

A sensational turning point, a fact that happens very rarely at this point in the process.

Fois, who has always denied , is accused of being the killer who organized the ambush in the country's countryside on 22 November 2017. The motive? According to the prosecutor, a revenge for the theft of two donkeys made the previous year and admitted by Daniele Congiu, who was hit by a bullet in the leg and survived the ambush.