Investigations continue on what happened inside a residence in Santa Maria Coghinas , in the Sassari area, where shortly before dawn Alberto Picci, 47, from Cagliari, attacked his parents - Giuseppe Picci, born in Cagliari 68 years ago, and Maria Giovanna Drago, 67, originally from the province of Ragusa - brutally, with a harpoon and a kitchen fork, in what investigators currently believe was a "raptus" triggered by causes yet to be clarified.
The two spouses are hospitalized in "desperate" conditions in hospital: Picci senior was hit by a harpoon fired with an underwater fishing rifle, which pierced him in the throat; his wife, on the other hand, was wounded in the head with a fork. It was the woman who gave the alarm, after the ambush of her son, which took place while the couple slept.
The 118 rescuers arrived on the spot and urgently transported the spouses to the Santissima Annunziata di Sassari, while the carabinieri of the Compagnia di Valledoria arrested the 47-year-old for attempted murder , found in the house confused and unable to explain the incident. . From a first hypothesis he would have acted in a state of semi-awareness, for no apparent reason.
The soldiers of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Sassari instead carried out the technical-scientific surveys, useful to clarify the dynamics of the drama. The room where the attack took place was found in an upset, as if there had been a fight, and traces of blood were found up in the small balcony leading to the garden, in front of the house.
As for the couple, the woman has undergone surgery, is intubated and sedated, and remains hospitalized in the intensive care unit. The conditions of her husband are, however, considered desperate: the surgeons also operated on him, in an attempt to extract the harpoon remained stuck.
The attacker, after being accompanied to the barracks in Valledoria and interrogated, was transferred to the Bancali prison, at the disposal of the prosecutor of Sassari, Angelo Beccu, owner of the investigation.
The hearing to validate the arrest will be held in the next few hours, in the presence of Picci's defense lawyer, Tania Decortes.
(Unioneonline / lf)