From the balconies of a building, the neighbors watched in terror the tragedy that took place on Saturday evening in the lower part of Via Principessa Giovanna in Porto Torres. Fulvio Baule, a 40-year-old bricklayer from Ploaghe, was arrested on charges of aggravated murder. He killed his father-in-law, Basilio Saladdino, a 74-year-old policeman on leave with an ax, and reduced his ex-wife Ilaria Saladdino to death and his 70-year-old mother-in-law Caterina Mancusa. The attack in front of her parents' house, not far from the seafront.
Around 8 pm Fulvio Baule brings his twins back to Porto Torres, in the home of his former in-laws. The place where Ilaria had decided to move after the separation from her husband. The children, just one year old, had spent the day with their father in Ploaghe, as established by the judge who had entrusted the children to their mother, with the possibility for Baule to be able to stay with them twice a week, in addition to Saturdays every 15 days. . “The quarrel between the spouses begins on the sidewalk - says a witness, Maria Antonella Santu - in front of the building where the woman had moved. They scream, push, kick and punch each other ”. The quarrel in front of the children of just one year, at that moment in the stroller. The screams attract the attention of the elderly father who at that moment was sitting on the sofa watching television. Worried, he goes down the stairs from the second floor to rush to his daughter's defense. “The quarrel between the policeman and the son-in-law ends in a physical confrontation, they roll on the street - adds the woman - then in anger the son-in-law goes to his car, takes out a hatchet and begins to strike everyone. He lashes out at the elderly and hits him several times in the head ”. The wounded women on the ground witness the horror helpless and, seized by fear, they escape into the hallway of the building. Baule runs after them armed with an ax and attacks his ex-wife and mother-in-law, seriously injuring them. Then he gets into his car and runs away.
