Le Iene on the death of Davide Calvia: from Giovannino Pinna's "confession" in the car to the hypotheses on the motive.

The Italia 1 program "Le Iene" covered the death of Davide Calvia , a 38-year-old from Sassari. The case initially appeared to be a shipwreck, but last March, three years after the events, the Sassari Prosecutor's Office requested the indictment for voluntary homicide of Giovannino Pinna (35 at the time), Calvia's cousin, who was with him at the time of the tragedy.

Reporter Nina Palmieri, using documents and interviews with the victim's family, reconstructed all the inconsistencies in the initial version. From the autopsy, which found Calvia died from head and chest trauma and not drowning , to the expert reports on the boat, which was apparently intentionally sunk after the murder : the wreck's position was "incompatible" with the location from which Pinna made the call to the Coast Guard.

Giovannino Pinna, we recall, was found 24 hours later on a beach in Marina di Sorso. But his condition, according to medical reports, was not consistent with that of someone who had been in the water for a day, in very low temperatures. He said the boat had sunk and they had jumped into the sea. He had called the Coast Guard and tried to help his cousin but had seen him disappear beneath the waves. Davide's body was found 10 days later.

Furthermore, three major new developments emerge from the report .

First, a wiretap in a car. Dirty, but cleaned up and deciphered by a forensic audio engineer. Giovannino Pinna is alone in the car, unaware of the microphone, and speaks in silence: "They stop me, I tell them I killed him on the way back from the pier."

Then there's another wiretap, Pinna and his father talking in the Carabinieri station. And the father seems to not believe his son's version . "My conscience is clear," Giovannino reiterates twice. "Not even if you put 10 hectoliters of bleach in there, you lied to me, you told me lies." The two also seem to be talking about a video call made directly from the boat: "When we saw each other," the father tells Giovannino, "it wasn't Davide on the boat, something doesn't add up."

Finally, the motive emerges: a motive of passion. Davide's mother recounts it: the woman witnesses the two arguing heatedly in the house. She first asks Giovannino what happened, and he replies , "Tell your son I'll kill him." She doesn't give that statement much weight, but then asks Davide, too, who replies, "I slept with his partner." The Le Iene correspondent tracks down the woman, who denies everything.

Another possibility is revenge, for drug or fish thefts or cars burned on commission by the two cousins . It's being speculated in some circles in Sassari, as revealed by a witness, that Pinna may have "sold out" his cousin to save his own skin . This hypothesis is reinforced both by the wiretap in which the father talks about the video call from the boat in which another person can be seen, and by a chat between Giovannino and his father himself, who eight days before the alleged shipwreck wrote to his son: "Be careful, expect visits at home. He's 100% looking for you. And he'll find you. They said you took them for a ride. You're really in trouble." The killer, in this case, could also be a third party. In short, it's not certain that the two cousins were the only ones on that boat .

The correspondent also spoke with the suspect, who rejected all the accusations and denied all the contradictions identified by investigators, proclaiming his innocence.

(Unioneonline/L)