"I'm serving a life sentence, but I'm innocent." Beniamino Zuncheddu has been in prison for 31 years, sentenced for a massacre which he claims he never committed. In 1991, in a sheepfold in Sinnai territory, three people were left on the ground one cold February night, riddled by a barrage of gunfire. A fourth man survived by pretending to be dead, hiding behind a cot. It was found the next morning. Seriously injured, he was rescued and subjected to surgery at the Marino hospital in Cagliari.
When questioned hotly, the survivor said he did not recognize the killer wearing a sheer women's stocking over his face. Weeks later, however, he recognized Beniamino as the author of that heinous crime. And from there began the ordeal of this boy, at the time 26 years old, who accepted the harsh sentence but has always professed his innocence.
In recent weeks the news of the reopening of the trial in Rome: the Court will re-examine the case and there are already those who say that the acquittal is at hand and that "this will be the most serious judicial error in Italy". As also claimed by Valentino Maimone, journalist, co-founder of the Errorigiudiziari.com association on whose site today he hosted Beniamino Zuncheddu, his lawyer Mauro Trogu and Benedetto Lattanzi, to talk about this painful story whose weight is all on Beniamino's shoulders , who is now beginning to hope to be able to leave prison for freedom.
(Unioneonline)
