An appeal has been filed to the Supreme Court of Cassation against the life sentence handed down on March 31 by the Sassari Court of Assizes against Fulvio Baule, a 43-year-old bricklayer from Ploaghe, who was sentenced to the maximum prison term for killing his in-laws, Basilio Saladdino and Caterina Liliana Mancusa, with an axe, and for brutally assaulting his ex-wife, Ilaria Saladdino, from whom he had recently separated. The appeal was filed in July by defense attorney Nicola Lucchi, who argues there is "an erroneous application of the legal provisions regarding mitigating circumstances, with the assessment of the positive elements of the offender's conduct overlapping with his mental state."

In the first-instance ruling and subsequent appeal, the Court denied the mitigating circumstances requested by the defense for a re-sentence. Baule was sentenced to life imprisonment with one year of solitary confinement, disqualification from holding public office, forfeiture of parental responsibility, and ordered to pay provisional compensation to the victims' families, who had filed civil actions. The double homicide occurred on the evening of February 26, 2022, when the bricklayer from Ploaghe took his children back to his wife, Ilaria Saladdino, who had moved to her parents' home on Via Principessa Giovanna in Porto Torres.

He attacked her in the street following a furious argument, then took the axe from the trunk of her car and struck her father-in-law Basilio several times. He then chased his mother-in-law Liliana, who, savagely beaten, died after a month in a coma. Baule fled the scene of the murder, committed in front of his two one-year-old twin sons, later turning himself in to the police.