All three are currently under investigation for conspiracy to commit murder and robbery. Brothers Gianmarco and Filippo Tunis, from Pirri, and Daniel Campus, from Quartu, have been at the center of the investigation into the murder of Leonardo Mocci in Monserrato since the night between Wednesday, April 22nd and Thursday, April 23rd. This investigation began when Carabinieri officers from the Cagliari Provincial Investigative Unit and the Quartu branch noted their names as the alleged perpetrators—or at least participants—in the alleged plot involving the fake drug sale with the victim's friend. The robbery ended in bloodshed. Investigators, coordinated in this delicate investigation by prosecutors Enrico Lussu and Diana Lecca, are working tirelessly to reconstruct every moment of the nine minutes that cost the life of the Villacidro bricklayer, who likely intervened to help his friend in distress.
The questions
The registration of the three young men in the register of suspects also serves to establish their actual involvement or definitively exonerate them. Their names, along with the crimes they are charged with, appear in the decree validating the seizure of a series of objects: cigarette butts, nozzles, a lead bullet, as well as the victim's cell phone and other items belonging to Mocci, deemed by investigators useful to the investigation. Campus was also questioned by the prosecutor, accompanied by lawyers Alberto Pani and Francesca Mannai, but exercised his right to remain silent. Therefore, the investigation still needs to ascertain what exactly happened around midnight between Wednesday and Thursday of last week and, above all, the actual roles of the three suspects, currently only hypothesized by the prosecution, in a matter about which the Prosecutor's Office and the Carabinieri are maintaining strict secrecy.
The appointment
The reconstruction being worked on is the one that emerged almost immediately: a robbery ended in bloodshed. Campus allegedly arranged a meeting with a young man from Serramanna who arrived in Monserrato in Mocci's Fiat Panda, with his friend at the wheel. The meeting—it's still unclear why Piazza Settimio Severo was chosen, amidst five public housing blocks and thus potentially obscured by witnesses—had one objective: a fake drug sale to rob the buyer, stealing the money he had with him to buy a significant amount of hashish. And so, according to what investigators have reconstructed so far, under close coordination with the Cagliari Prosecutor's Office, a gang—at least two or three hooded individuals—armed with at least one gun, awaited the two and attempted to steal the proceeds from the deal. There was a reaction, and Mocci—who had agreed to accompany the other young man—intervened to defend his friend in distress. Then they fled.
The person supposed to buy the drugs got into the car, thinking the 23-year-old bricklayer from Villacidro had managed to escape on foot. The Fiat Panda was filmed speeding off the narrow access road to the square nine minutes after arriving. Mocci, however, remained on the ground, struck in the heart by a bullet at close range.
The investigations
The investigation began immediately and took a clear direction. But investigators were met with a wall of "I don't know," "I had nothing to do with it," and "I didn't see anything." Now they await the results of the RIS examinations of the items seized by the Carabinieri investigative unit and of other investigations conducted by investigators. This will establish with certainty the possible involvement of the three suspects and their roles.
Francesco Pinna
Matthew Vercelli
