«Our request starts from a scientific foundation, as suggested by the psychiatrist Mario Deriu, so that Baule's temporary state of inability to understand and will be recognized , which had greatly diminished at the time of the crime, and above all the inability to abstain from the impulse of killing, because precisely because of his emotional dependence, he could not refrain from killing what he was losing . I also ask that generic mitigating circumstances be recognised."
These are the requests to the Court of Assizes of Sassari , presided over by judge Massimo Zaniboni, by Nicola Lucchi, defender of Fulvio Baule, the 42-year-old bricklayer from Ploaghe accused of killing his in-laws, Basilio Saladdino and Liliana Mancusa, with an axe. , on February 26, 2022, in Porto Torres . That evening Baule attacked his ex-wife Laria Saladdino, who escaped the massacre, with the same ferocity.
In his speech the lawyer attempted to dismantle the reconstruction of the civil party , underlining the total absence of premeditation and futile motives and underlining the defendant's state of mind and his fear of not being able to see his children again as a "triggering factor". » . In particular, the defense asked the Court to re-evaluate the psychiatric reports of the parties and those of Paolo Milia appointed by the judge, which were deemed contradictory. Both recognize the existence of an emotional dependence.
In the previous hearing, prosecutor Enrica Angioni had asked for a life sentence for Baule, with the aggravating circumstances of cruelty, premeditation and having committed the crime in the presence of the couple's one-year-old twin children. The request also includes daytime isolation for one year and the termination of parental rights. The next hearing is on June 11th for any replies and the pronouncement of the sentence.
