The Tempio Tribunal, presided over by Caterina Interlandi , acquitted all those on trial for the robbery committed on August 6, 2012, at the Banco di Sardegna branch in Trinità d'Agultu. The two brothers , Giuseppe and Giovanni Antonio Monni , from Orgosolo, and Pietro Mereu , also from Orgosolo, were acquitted. They were defended by lawyers Francesco Carboni, Francesco Lai, and Potito Flagella.
The public prosecutor also requested the defendants' acquittal, while Banco di Sardegna, a civil party in the case, insisted on a conviction. In the prosecutor's initial reconstruction, Pietro Mereu, Giuseppe, and Giovanni Antonio Monni were identified as the individuals who stormed the bank, their faces covered and armed with guns, immobilizing the employees. During the preliminary investigation, however, the prosecution's initial theory was not supported.
The three were arrested months after the robbery, at the end of a vast investigation into several robberies (not attributed to the Orgosolo gang) carried out in Gallura by a gang headquartered in Badesi . The Tempio Prosecutor's Office had also opened another case regarding an attempted robbery at the Eurospin supermarket in Tempio, a related investigation that has now been brought before the panel chaired by Caterina Interlandi.
