“In prison they always told me: if you repent we’ll give you freedom. But what do I have to repent of if I haven’t done anything?”, said the former pastor who was acquitted in the Court of Appeal after remaining in prison for more than 30 years. years for the Cuili is Coccus massacre in Sinnai, Sardinia, in which three people died and a fourth was seriously injured
“I felt like a little bird in a cage without the possibility of being able to do anything.” This was said by Beniamino Zuncheddu, the man acquitted in the review process in the Court of Appeal after having remained in prison for more than 30 years for the Cuili is Coccus massacre in Sinnai, Sardinia, in which three shepherds died in 1991 and a fourth person was seriously injured. During the press conference called by the radicals, Zuncheddu, now 59 years old, stated: “Even today I didn’t understand why they did it. These are mistakes that judges make. In prison they always told me: if you repent we’ll give you freedom. But of what Should I repent if I didn’t do anything? But I didn’t accept because I didn’t do anything.”
“I’ve always dreamed of this moment coming”
Zuncheddu declared that he did not feel anger and that he had “always dreamed of this moment arriving, from day one. I feel I must say thank you to the Radical Party, to those around me, to my family, to my country”. The worst moment was “when they arrested me and the best when they freed me. I can’t say how I imagine my life now”, said the former farmer, adding that “I wanted to have a family, build something, be a a free citizen like everyone else. Thirty years ago I was young, today I am old. They stole everything from me. Now I will rest, at least mentally.”
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The former shepherd of Burcei, a municipality in the province of Southern Sardinia, was serving a life sentence, for which he remained in prison for more than 32 years. Yesterday the judges of the Court of Appeal of Rome, at the end of the review process, acquitted him with the formula “for not having committed the crime”. Already on November 25th, following the decision of the judges of the capital who had accepted the request for suspension of the sentence, he was released from prison. Since yesterday, Zuncheddu has been a definitively free man, 33 years after when, in January 1991, he ended up in handcuffs for a triple murder.
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From Brandizzo to Cecchettin: news events that marked 2023
Among the news events that have marked the last year is the capture of Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro, arrested after 30 years on the run. Then the tragedy of the Cutro shipwreck, the floods in Emilia Romagna and Tuscany, the disappearance of Kata, the death of Silvio Berlusconi, the return of Patrick Zaki to Italy, the violence in Palermo and Caivano and the feminicides that fueled the debate on violence against women in our country
THE BODY OF SAMAN ABBAS FOUND
- On January 4, 2023, confirmation arrived that the body found on November 18, 2022 in Novellara was that of Saman Abbas, the 17-year-old who disappeared on the night of April 30, 2021. The young woman’s uncle, believed by investigators, had indicated the place of hiding. the perpetrator of the murder committed – in complicity with the girl’s parents and some cousins - because Saman had opposed an arranged marriage with a cousin in her homeland
THE CAPTURE OF MATTEO MESSINA DENARO
- On January 16, after being on the run for 30 years, Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested in a private clinic in Palermo. A year earlier he had undergone surgery in the private facility and since then he had been undergoing day hospital treatment using a false name, Andrea Bonafede. Suffering from a tumor, on September 22nd it entered him as irreversible and died three days later
THOMAS BRICCA
- On the evening of January 30th in Alatri, 19-year-old Thomas Bricca was shot in the head while he was with some friends. The boy dies two days later. Roberto and Mattia Toson, father and son respectively, are arrested for the murder: according to the prosecution they wanted to avenge two fights that occurred between them and the group in which Thomas was, but their target was a peer of the victim, hit by mistake because he was wearing a jacket the same color as his friend’s