Sardara's "forbidden" lunch, four suspects on trial and one acquitted
Indictment for the former colonel Granari and his aide, together with the mayor of Mandas Oppus and the manager of the facility that hosted the event, organized in 2021 despite the anti-Covid restrictions
The Court of Cagliari (Ansa)
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The judge for the preliminary hearings Giorgio Altieri has indicted four of the five suspects in the investigation into the "forbidden" lunch in Sardara on April 7, 2021.
In a thermal establishment in southern Sardinia, in open violation of the anti-Covid regulations envisaged for the orange zone which in those days had been arranged throughout the island, about forty people had gathered including regional managers, politicians, mayors, health leaders and military. Many of whom, upon the arrival of the Fiamme Gialle, who put an end to the meeting-banquet, managed to disappear.
Marco Granari , then commander of the 151st Infantry Regiment of the Sassari Brigade, will have to appear before the panel of the second criminal section of the Cagliari court for those facts, accused of embezzlement for the use of the service car, but also of some forgeries, and of his assistant at the time of the events, former lieutenant colonel Mario Piras .
On the other hand , corporal major Davide Concas was acquitted - because the fact did not constitute a crime - defended by the lawyer Silvia Boggio. The soldier, on the occasion of Sardara's lunch, only drove the car, obeying an order from his superior.
The investigating judge of the Court also accepted the request for indictment of the prosecutor Giangiacomo Pilia, with the hypothesis of aiding and abetting, of the mayor of Mandas, Umberto Oppus , at the material time general manager of the Regional Department of Local Authorities, and of Giovanni Corona , the manager responsible for the spa facility.
According to the indictment, they would have favored the soldiers under investigation with testimonies and agreed versions on the reason for the presence of the commander of the 151st Regiment of the Sassari Brigade at the lunch. Already filed in recent months the accusation of omission of official documents hypothesized for Antonio Casula, former regional commander of the Forestry Corps.
What got him into trouble was his role, as well as a public official, also as a judicial police officer with specific skills in supervising and monitoring compliance with the anti-Covid rules against the pandemic.
Once the investigation was closed, Casula - defended by the lawyer Anna Maria Busia - had asked to be questioned again and had presented other briefs, demonstrating to the investigators that, in his behavior, there had been nothing of criminal relevance.
The former director general of Forestas, Giuliano Patteri, and the former manager of the University Hospital of Cagliari, Giorgio Sorrentino, have already left the investigation in the investigation phase, again with the filing. They had been entered in the register of suspects for embezzlement, but the Finance checks had then ruled out any crime, as in the case of Casula.
The investigations were carried out by investigators from the Guardia di Finanza and by the military police, coordinated by lieutenant Gianluca Dragoni.
The defense team is instead made up of lawyers Antonio Marino (Granari), Marcello Floris (Piras), Giorgio Canetto and Aldo Schiavone (Corona), Gianluca Aste and Gianni Faa (Oppus).
