In the night between Thursday and Friday the river deposition , the one in which Antonello Piras , 20 years old from Lula, confessed to Uncle Nico's crime in front of the prosecutor Ireno Satta and the Carabinieri of Bitti. Murder that occurred four days earlier in Lula, at the end of the Cortes Apertas celebrations.
Yesterday morning the hearing to validate the arrest before the investigating judge Giovanni Angelicchio lasted only a handful of minutes. The confessed criminal, alongside his lawyers Francesco Mossa and Giovanni Angelo Colli, confirmed the version provided to the investigators immediately after its constitution , making use of the right not to respond.
The young man, accompanied by his mother, had presented himself to the police, saying that he had been subjected to continuous threats by Nico Piras, even during the day in Cortes last Sunday.
The victim's nephew, Antonello Piras, had turned himself in after being unavailable for four days. This is the son of Angelo Maria Piras, killed in January 2015, for whom the trial is underway in Cagliari against Nico Piras himself and his ex-wife Alice Flore. The young man confessed to the murder, saying he had been provoked by his uncle.
«I was drinking at the kiosk - he told the police - Nico Piras provoked and mocked me. 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. There I lost my mind, I took out the rifle I had on me and fired." The weapons were not found.
F. Le.