A gun appears in the investigation into the murder of the farmer Massimo Deidda, 63, who was beaten to death Monday evening in Aureddus, along a country road on the outskirts of Gergei . To have it recovered by the carabinieri would have been Cesare Tiberio Farris, 59, arrested together with his son Stefano, 29, on charges of voluntary murder. To the carabinieri of the Compagnia di Isili, who are investigating under the guidance of the deputy prosecutor Alessandro Pili, the breeder would have said that the weapon belonged to Massimo Deidda and that the attack with a stick would have occurred in defense. Not only. The man would also have tried to shoulder the entire responsibility in an attempt to exonerate his son.
The autopsy
Meanwhile yesterday morning the consultant of the Prosecutor's Office, Roberto Demontis, started the autopsy on the farmer's body. For more than five hours, until after 3 pm, the professor of Forensic Medicine at the University Polyclinic of Monserrato tried to reconstruct the sequence of blows that caused the death of the 63-year-old. Six, perhaps seven blows inflicted with a deadly violence to the head of the farmer: blows that caused extensive fractures to the skull, with also a cerebral hemorrhage which later proved fatal. When he was found dying by a farmer from Gergei, there was already nothing more for Deidda to do.
The stub
But following the discovery of the gun, seized by the Carabinieri, the magistrate also ordered his consultants to carry out the test of the stub, the so-called paraffin glove, on the victim's hands. An investigative scruple necessary to try to understand if there are foundations in the story told to the investigators by Cesare Tiberio Farris, shortly before the arrest order for him and for his son was triggered. Stories that the farmer would have given to the investigators when the trusted defendants, the lawyers Giovanni Aste and Valerio Doa, were still not present. Also for this reason it is not clear whether those declarations can then be considered valid for trial purposes, but they certainly are for the continuation of the investigations. The fact is that in the meantime the prosecutor would have ordered the examination of the gun, the detection of any fingerprints and the test of the stub both on the victim and on the two arrested. The results of the molecular tests are unknown, but no one would have shown burns to the hands potentially compatible with a shot.
Eyewitness
In the meantime, the soldiers of the Company of Isili and the Nuoro investigative unit would also have heard again the eyewitness of the attack: a seventy-year-old who was working in his garden and who would then have run away, alerting the carabinieri. He, too, in the confusion of the screams, would have heard someone say the word "pistol", but without seeing any weapon and without being able to indicate who said it.
The validation hearing
The validation hearing before Judge Giuseppe Pintori is set for today in prison. Cesare Tiberio and Stefano Farris will be heard by the investigating judge who will decide on any precautionary measure requested by the prosecutor. On that occasion - if they fail to make use of the right not to answer - they will be able to tell their version of the facts assisted by their trusted defendants. In the meantime, the victim's family also instructed the lawyer Herika Dessì to follow the progress of the investigation as far as possible. Although Cesare Tiberio Farris was Albino's brother (killed with his wife in 2013), the crime on Monday night would have nothing to do with the double murder of nine years ago. Last night the Prosecutor's Office returned the body to the family for the funeral which will take place today at 6.15 pm in the parish of San Vito Martire.
Francesco Pinna
