Fabio Fois is serving a life sentence for the murder of Fabio Longoni, but as soon as the Supreme Court's verdict upheld his conviction, he managed to escape the Carabinieri who had been monitoring him for days and disappeared . In the late afternoon, when the verdict was announced from Rome, officers from the Lanusei company were outside Fois's home (he had just returned from six years of house arrest), ready to transfer him to prison, but they found no trace of him. The convict's escape is incredible.

Fois, 62, a farmer originally from Loceri but living in Girasole, was the sole defendant in the 2017 murder near the Niu Abila sheepfold, in the plain below Villagrande Strisaili . For the lower courts, and now the Supreme Court, the motive was revenge for the theft of two donkeys . A wrong Fois would never have forgiven Fabio Longoni, the farmer from Villagrande killed at the age of 39.

Roberto Secci

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