The investigating judge of the Court of Sassari, Sergio Deluca, validated the arrest of Alberto Picci , the 47-year-old from Cagliari who last week, in Santa Maria Coghinas , reduced his parents, Giuseppe Picci and Maria Giovanna Drago to death, hitting them with a harpoon and fishing scissors .

The judge also applied the measure of pre-trial detention in prison, for which the man remains locked up in the Bancali penitentiary.

The decision of the investigating judge was notified to the lawyer Tania Decortes who took on the defense of the 47-year-old and who will now have to decide whether to request a psychiatric examination for her client.

According to the investigations conducted by the Carabinieri of the Valledoria Company and the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Sassari, who had arrested Picci a few moments after the attack , at dawn on April 27, the 47-year-old hit his father in the throat with a harpoon shot. with a diving rifle, and then he shot his mother in the head with fishing scissors. The prosecutor Angelo Beccu accuses him of double attempted aggravated murder , but he says he does not remember anything.

Last Friday, in the validation hearing before the investigating judge, Alberto Picci made use of the right not to answer, but wanted to make some spontaneous statements . He said that he has an excellent relationship with his parents, that there have never been any fights and that he does not remember anything of what happened. "If I did what you say, I did it involuntarily, it was not up to me."

Meanwhile, the parents remain hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Santissima Annunziata di Sassari, kept in a pharmacological coma by the doctors after two delicate surgeries.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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