"Luigi was the most precious gift for Pietro: they took him away from him." Orune murmurs. Pain pervades every corner of the country after last Friday's crime.
The relationship between Pietro Contena and his Luigi was not a simple father-son relationship. It was pure symbiosis, boundless esteem, as those lines in limba that the then 24-year-old wanted to print on the keyboard in 2017, accompanied by a heart, tell us, so as to make them visible to everyone on his social page. «Come supra sa forte testa tua, Chi dolores penas at frittídu, De s'edade cumparit cuddu nie, Passen sos anni, passen sempre a fua, Ma a mie restat s'exempiu candídu, D' unu nobile babbu che a tie». Clear concepts. Thoughtful, effective sentences. «The years pass, they pass quickly, but I am left with the candid example of a noble father like you».
The investigations
While waiting for the autopsy on the body of the 32-year-old farmer killed with at least two gunshots on the morning of July 4, the investigations are proceeding at a rapid pace. The past of Pietro Contena, 54-year-old father of Luigi, continually resurfaces and makes it clear that the track of settling scores is the one favored by investigators. The "head of the family", in fact, has been in prison since May 20, accused of having killed his fellow countryman Luca Goddi with gunshots on August 5, 2023. Pietro Contena, however, had also ended up at the center of two other disturbing episodes in 2012 and 2014. He had escaped two ambushes, just over two years apart. In short, Orune falls back into the abyss, to the sound of gunshots and warnings that spread death and despair.
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