On Friday, the suspended mayor of Ottana, Franco Saba, left Massama prison, where he had been transferred since the end of July, to return to house arrest. Last weekend, the investigating judge of the Nuoro Court granted the request for mitigation of the precautionary measure presented by Saba's lawyers, Gianluigi Mastio and Nicola Satta, ordering house arrest in a house far from the town of Ottana. Saba had been transferred to the Badu 'e Carros penitentiary in Nuoro 28 days ago after the Nuoro Court had increased the precautionary measure, replacing house arrest with prison detention.
The measure, as the president of the court himself clarified, was not related to the appointment of the new municipal council, but exclusively to the alleged violations (eight of them, including two escapes from house arrest) of the provisions imposed during house arrest. Then, from Badu 'e Carros, he was transferred to Massama prison.
