Last April, he filled his apartment in Ozieri with gas, calling 112 and claiming to have killed his wife. In reality , Antonio Maria Pani, 64, was hiding in a basement of the house , ready to blow everything up when the Carabinieri arrived .
The attempt, assuming this was his intention, was unsuccessful: the man was arrested by soldiers from the Ozieri company under the command of Major Gabriele Tronca and then taken to Bancali prison. He was charged with mass murder, and today, in court in Sassari, preliminary hearing judge Gian Paolo Piana admitted the man to a fast-track trial . This procedure was chosen by defense lawyer Antonella Chirigoni, who also requested that the trial be conditional on a psychiatric evaluation of the suspect .
The judge adjourned the next hearing until the end of January. A few days before the Ozieri incident, Pani had been sentenced to nine months for contempt, again in Sassari, for allegedly damaging the memorial plaque for Walter Frau , a Carabiniere killed in Chilivani on August 16, 1995, in a firefight with robbers, in which the other soldier present, Ciriaco Carru, also lost his life.
