Massimo Temussi feared for his safety. On 27 October 2019 a "dark-coloured Ford Fiesta" had followed him for a long time through the streets of Cagliari. He managed to outrun her, but in December he turned to the police to report what he considered to be intimidation. He said no more. Only later, in October 2020, when interviewed again by the investigators, did he reveal that in his opinion the instigator of that heavy climate around him was Gabriella Murgia.
On the day of the declaration he was already extraordinary commissioner of the ATS (he now presides over the national Anpal), she headed the regional agriculture department. But both, at the time of the reported stalking, were at Aspal (Regional Employment Agency): he managed it, she was an official. And they had clashed over a dispute over timetables. Murgia had risked disciplinary proceedings and had not taken it well.
It could have remained a small office dispute. Its developments entered the investigation papers of the Cagliari DDA, conducted by the ROS carabinieri, which yesterday led to the arrest of 31 members of an alleged criminal group which in its various branches committed crimes ranging from mafia association to the secret one, up to corruption and drug trafficking. Murgia ended up in handcuffs, Temussi is under investigation for abuse of office and revealing secrets.
According to the investigators' reconstruction, we read in the order signed by investigating judge Michele Contini, the former councilor had strong links with Orgolese bandits such as Nicolò Cossu (known as Cioccolato) and Tonino Crissantu. And during a "snack" in Orgosolo at the end of the summer of 2019 he would have felt an appreciation towards Temussi that he had not appreciated. So much so that he said: "It should be scaled down." Parked outside the banquet site, the investigators write, there was also the Ford that would follow Temussi a few months later.
The former Aspal general manager would have connected the dots when, subsequently, he formed personal ties with another of those arrested, the Binaghi anesthetist Tomaso Cocco, who was also present at the snack and arrested yesterday with Murgia.
The doctor would therefore have worked to smooth out the tensions and return to the kennel those who he, on several occasions, had defined as "our dogs", i.e. the bandits, who with their mere presence, by virtue of their criminal stature, were capable of intimidating opponents and interlocutors. And Temussi, according to the order, within a year would have gone from the status of victim to that of "protected person" of the group. And in the meantime he would have been interested in having Cocco obtain the leadership of the structure simple of Binaghi's Pain Therapy, with the path paved towards the primary position.