Hope is a glimmer that refuses to die. More than six years after his disappearance, the fate of Salvatore Angioni, known to all as Tore, remains a mystery. He left his home in Sestu on March 12, 2020, and hasn't returned since. But his family continues to hope that one day he will walk through that door.
The anguish of relatives
His brothers Giuseppe and Fabrizio are still looking for him, and his mother is constantly asking about him. "We want to say it again, Tore was a fragile person, a boy with a difficult past, not very clear-minded. He needed help, but it was denied him," the brothers say, renewing their appeal, which they've made too often: "Anyone who knows something, even the smallest clue, can tell us."
Today he would be 54 years old; he was 47 and a few months old when that morning, with the lockdown having begun a few days earlier, he left home for one of the few permitted reasons: to go to the post office, where he was picking up his citizen's income. Life hasn't been kind to Tore. A job as a tiler, severe back pain that began early, which he battled with medication, to the point of becoming addicted. Lately, he's been sad. But the suicide hypothesis has been firmly denied by his family.
«He loved life»
"He loved life, he loved his family," they assure, "and then, when someone makes that choice, the body is usually found immediately." For Tore, however, there's only mystery, accompanied by details that create even more anguish. "He went to the post office, then he was seen that same morning in Cagliari on Via Cornalias, about two hours later, and on Viale Trieste around 6 pm the next day. Trustworthy people saw him, but it's painful to think that no one stopped him, no one helped him." And the search? "The provincial plan, which allows law enforcement to coordinate efforts to find a person, was never activated. The phone records were checked too late, when much of the information was no longer available. It almost seems like they assumed he left voluntarily, yet we specified that Tore was not well."
