«I went down the stairs in a hurry, after hearing people shouting from my apartment asking to alarm the police, I thought there were some thugs who could damage my car, but instead I saw Mr. Basilio Saladdino staggering in the middle of the street, carrying out a few steps and then fall to the ground lifeless. His wounds were shocking, I couldn't even look at him ." It is the testimony of Antonello Gadau, neighbor of the Salddino family, given before the Court of Assizes of Sassari and in the presence of the plaintiff lawyers Gian Mario Solinas and Silvia Ferraris, and the defense lawyer Nicola Lucchi.
He recounted the terrible moments of the evening of February 26, 2022 , when the accused Fulvio Baule , 41 years old from Ploaghe, killed his in-laws Basilio Saladdino and Liliana Mancusa with an ax, seriously injuring his ex-wife Ilaria Saladdino . The massacre in front of their home in via Principessa Giovanna in Porto Torres.
It seemed like a quiet evening when shortly after 8pm «my wife opened the window and I heard people shouting: “police, police”. So when I ran into the street I didn't understand what was happening , but I saw Mr. Saladdino seriously injured - Gadau continued in his story - then I saw his wife on the ground in front of the garage, down in the courtyard of the condominium, she too seemed to be to expire. Suddenly his daughter Ilaria appeared and approached her father and collapsed on the ground unconscious." Around the crime scene, people watched the scene in terror from their windows. They were afraid. They waited for the arrival of 118 and the carabinieri of the Porto Torres company, before going out into the street. «Then Marshal Serra's mother looked out onto the balcony and shouted at me: " Take the children and save them ". They were the twins of Fulvio Baule and Ilaria Saladdino, they were crying in the blood-stained stroller ."
The Court, presided over by Judge Massimo Zaniboni, appointed the doctor Paolo Milia to carry out a psychiatric assessment on the accused to understand whether he was capable of understanding and will at the time of the double crime. The prosecutor's office and the defense will also appoint their own expert. The reports will be illustrated at the next hearing on March 19.