Not revenge, but a long series of provocations and threats that would have made Antonello Piras "lose his mind" , a 21-year-old from Lula who confessed to the murder of his uncle Nico, killed in the night between Sunday and Monday when the celebrations for the Cortes Apertas.
The young man presented himself this morning to the Carabinieri of the Bitti Company and admitted to being responsible for the murder. In front of the prosecutor of the Nuoro Prosecutor's Office Ireno Satta and the marshal Giovanni Ciancilia, accompanied by the lawyers Francesco Mossa and Giovanni Angelo Colli, his mother Giampiera Calia and his sister, Piras told what happened that evening: « I was drinking at the kiosk, Nico Piras told me he provoked and mocked. I walked away and went to another kiosk, but he followed me, showing me a gun and telling me that he would make me end up like my father. Then I was afraid of being killed and ending up like my father. I lost my mind, I took out the rifle I had on me and fired ."
Thanks to the confession, it was learned that the murder weapon was not a pistol but a rifle: the two shots to the abdomen were fatal for the victim, they compromised several internal organs leading to the man's death two days later at San Francesco of Nuoro.
The 21-year-old, who had worked as a waiter on the Costa Smeralda all summer, returned to Lula last weekend for the Cortes Apertas. He has now been arrested and taken to the Badu 'e Carros prison in Nuoro .
The young man's position was already at the center of the investigation. For the victim's precedent and therefore the possible motive for revenge, but not only. A moped used by the boy was found near the crime scene, furthermore Antonello Piras had made himself untraceable immediately after the murder .
Nico Piras was accused of the murder of his brother Angelo Maria Piras, Antonello's father . The man was shot dead in 2015, a crime according to investigators due to inheritance issues. The trial was scheduled for today in the Court of Assizes for that bloody event, with the 42-year-old farmer murdered last Monday and his ex-wife Alice Flore on trial.
(Unioneonline/L)