Sinnai massacre, the survivor: «The unrecognizable killer had his sock on his face. The picture? It was shown to me before seeing the prosecutor"

After an hour and a half of dramatic testimony, with the effort of retracing over thirty years of fear and pain, the only survivor of the Sinnai massacre , Luigi Pinna , admits what the General Prosecutor's Office of Cagliari and Beniamino 's lawyer Zuncheddu , the pastor serving a life sentence for the massacre, suspected: the photo of Zuncheddu as the possible perpetrator was shown to the survivor before he officially met the prosecutor . «That's how it is», said Pinna, «they showed it to me first. Who? The policeman Mario Uda ».

That is, the man who had carried out the investigations. Precisely the suspicion at the origin of the request for review of the trial now underway in Rome, a behavior which according to the former Cagliari prosecutor Francesca Nanni made the key evidence at the origin of Zuncheddu's conviction "false" .

After a twenty minute break the hearing resumed and Pinna admitted another fundamental detail: to the prosecutor's question as to whether or not the murderer had a sock on his face , an element of capital importance (immediately after the crime the survivor had said yes, then after 40 days and he said no, justifying the first version with "the fear that they would come looking for me"), he answered clearly: "He had it". So he couldn't recognize the killer .

Then began the testimony of Daniela Fadda , Pinna's wife, who retraced the years of the investigations and underlined how Libero Fadda considered it "unfair that only Zuncheddu was in prison and not other people" believed to be involved in the massacre. Giuseppe Fadda himself, son of Gesuino (the owner of Cuile is Coccus), while the massacre was taking place, said to the pastor Ignazio Pusceddu "take a rifle they are shooting at your father". So there were more people .

Battistino Mulas? «They spoke to my sister Maria. I wasn't there, I had the family on my own. He was a snack companion, he was always in a group with the Zuncheddu. The meeting in the mountains with Uda and my sister Maria immediately after the massacre? Uda introduced himself as a relative of ours from Busachi. Battistino said he had learned that Beniamino had done the errand and also spoke about the cows that had been promised to him in exchange, 12 or 14. Mulas didn't know he was talking to a policeman, they met later. We didn't know him either. He lived near home but we didn't know each other." On the photo of Zuncheddu shown to her husband before the meeting with the prosecutor, the woman said that " Uda had shown him the photos, Luigi didn't know Beniamino ".

In a phone call with Uda, when the investigations were reopened and after the wiretaps carried out by the Cagliari police, the woman told the investigator that her husband would "always remain on the same side" . But to which party she was referring, given that Pinna was the victim, the woman was unable to answer despite the requests of the prosecutor and the clear reminders of the President of the Court, who reminded Fadda of the obligation to tell the truth and the possible consequences.

«My husband doesn't tell me everything... Do you have doubts about Zuncheddu? He never told me. They're angry with Uda because he did the investigations. Is it a fault? They wanted to make my husband say that it wasn't Beniamino, but my husband always told me that he recognized him because he wasn't wearing tights." However, this statement was denied by Pinna himself in his testimony a few hours earlier. "But he always told me that."

Regarding the connections with the kidnapping of Gianni Murgia, the woman speaks of a simple "coincidence", the crime, according to her, was linked to "cattle trespassing" . So much so that then someone else arrived to occupy the fold, «another person from Burcei who is still there. They are lands under civic uses", publicly owned and assigned to breeders: " They belonged to our ancestors. There are the masters. But the Zuncheddu are not masters. A couple of years ago Luigi Zuncheddu joined us ", and is now in that sheepfold that was "built by my father Gesuino" . All the males of the family were killed. «My husband, while returning from work on State Road 554 at the Maracalagonis intersection, found a guy behind him who made a rude gesture to him: it was Franco Mulas. The rifle filings man."

The woman also speaks of an anonymous letter sent about the massacre, a letter "found in court, in which the Mulas were accused. But I've never seen her." The murderer's husband told her that «only one person entered the sheepfold room. I remember that me, my mother and my sister went up the mountains. The goats were in the pen and we wondered what had happened. Sometimes my brother didn't even come home, and in any case he had to be milked before bringing them back inside. My sister and I got out of the car, then my mother and the person who accompanied us found my father dead. In the kitchen there was my brother thrown on the floor. We heard my mother's screams, screaming my father's name. Then we heard from Luigi, he was afraid they would come back to kill him . He was on a cot, Ignazio was behind. My husband just told me not to look. Then they hospitalized him. He said he didn't recognize anyone at first. We spent many sleepless nights. He kept many things to himself, so as not to worry me. He said that the killer had a light jacket, criss-cross ankle boots, a particular nose, and gloves. I think Luigi and Uda met, but my husband never had any doubts about the identity of the killer. He never told me ."

The last to testify, the policeman Mario Uda , who had played a fundamental role in the investigation of the massacre, denies having shown the photo of Zuncheddu to the survivor before the official recognition ("I didn't show him any image") and confirms this version even when the Capitoline character reads to him the transcripts of the interceptions of the dialogues between Pinna and his wife: those in which the survivor instead seems to confirm what he himself later admitted today at the beginning of his testimony before the Court of Appeal of Rome. That is, in reality, the photo had actually been shown to him by Uda when it shouldn't have been and could have been done. Then the witness indicates who had first mentioned the name of Zuncheddu (a former shepherd of the Fadda family, Paolo Melis) and recalls the doubts about Pinna's fluctuating versions of the killer's identification : «He had seen the smooth soles of the shoes, the thick hair , the white jacket . From our point of view it could have said much more."