Beniamino Zuncheddu spent his first Sunday as a free man after thirty-three years as a life prisoner at home. Awake calmly after the stress of the trip to Rome for the sentence that restored his freedom, the press conference with the Radical Party, the interviews, the live broadcast on Videolina. Did you sleep last night? «A little», smiles the former life prisoner: «You know how it is, there's still a lot of adrenaline».

The morning was monopolized by a crew from Le Iene , who arrived for a long interview. “You journalists aren't even giving us time to take a shower,” Sister Augusta frowns. «He's tired, we need to let him rest. He is not well: he has a headache and problems with his right eye. He will have to have a specialist visit on Tuesday." Beniamino nods. For the afternoon, he announces, his program is simple: "Rest and relaxation."

Respect and discretion

Burcei understood the needs of his newfound fellow villager: attention and concern, yes, but in the name of discretion and respect. «To celebrate we wait for the right moment. We don't want to put pressure on him", says the mayor Simone Monni: "The sentence has given him back his freedom but he still has to discover normality, everyday life, to be savored in complete calm".

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