A non-functioning van would be the cause of the dispute, the latest in a long series, which led to the murder of Giorgio Pittalis , 61, from Bitti, killed by his brother Giuseppe , 55. The man confessed during the guarantee interrogation in the Nuoro prison of Badu 'e Carros.

"I am sorry and repentant," Pittalis told investigating judge Mauro Pusceddu, "Giorgio was my brother, blood of my blood, but I never saw each other again at that time ." A raptus during a heated discussion: on Friday, early in the morning, the two brothers had gone to their farm, in the locality of Sa 'e Lussu, to milk the sheep.

Giorgio, according to the reconstruction of Giuseppe Pittalis, reproached him for not having taken action to repair a van , which had been stopped for days, which they used every day to reach the company where they managed a flock of almost a thousand sheep. The brother's inertia was forcing the two to continually ask favors from friends and acquaintances to go to work.

Giuseppe recounts having received a shove, at which point the violent reaction: he would have grabbed a hammer and hit Giorgio several times on the head . According to what was declared to the investigating judge, he would have immediately noticed that he had killed him: "I called a farmer friend who accompanied me to the village: I had to run some errands before turning myself in".

At that point he went home, changed clothes, deposited some checks in the bank and went to the bar to have a coffee . The first to receive the confession was the mayor of Bitti, Giuseppe Ciccolini , who immediately afterwards accompanied him to the police station, where Giuseppe Pittalis turned himself in.