A third unidentified person may have been present in Bacu Abis' home before the fire broke out in which, on April 17, 2011, Manuel Piredda lost his life and his ex-wife, Valentina Pitzalis, was left disfigured. For now it is only an investigative hypothesis, linked to the presence of a trace of blood , but sufficient to make the Prosecutor open a new file for voluntary homicide against unknown persons , two years after the filing of the one in which Pitzalis herself was investigated for arson and murder. This second investigation does not concern the 39-year-old from Carbonia in the slightest, who has become a national symbol of violence against women.
The new file
The new investigation was opened by the deputy prosecutor Gilberto Ganassi after a thorough research work carried out by the legal staff of the Piredda family, now led by Patrizio Rovelli who worked in close collaboration with the lawyers of his firm and with numerous internationally renowned technical consultants . For the moment mouths remain sealed both in the prosecutor's office and among the lawyers, but it seems that the new file may be linked to a trace - already known by the investigators - found in one of the blackened walls of the house. Among other things, a third person had already spoken of a journalist immediately after the fire, so much so that the prosecutor, the deputy prosecutor Paolo De Angelis, had asked the carabinieri to investigate further with a specific proxy. In the end, however, nothing came of it.
The storage
In October 2020, after three years of investigations, the judge Maria Gabriella Muscas had filed - at the end of a very long probative incident - the investigation against Valentina Pitzalis. Prosecutor Ganassi, the owner of that proceeding, was convinced, like his predecessor De Angelis before him, that the woman had escaped an attempted assault with fire by her ex-husband, who later died following the fire. Even that proceeding was opened following a report from the Piredda family, who have always been convinced that the reconstruction of the facts is not the one that emerged from the first investigation.
