(ANSA) – CAGLIARI, JUNE 25 – The request has been filed for the reopening of the case of Manuela Murgia, the 16-year-old girl found dead on 5 February 1995 in the Tuvixeddu canyon in Cagliari. A case archived at the time as suicide, but the family never believed it: for them Manuela was killed. Now, after a series of defensive investigations conducted by the law firm of Bachisio Mele and the lawyer Giulia Lai, it has been officially requested that the case be reopened. “We have carried out investigations – the lawyer Mele told ANSA – furthermore important information has arrived thanks to the activities carried out by the family members, to the appeals launched which have allowed us to have important news. These clues may be useful to the Prosecutor’s Office to reopen the case”. In particular, the lawyers presented three requests: “We want an investigation for murder against unknown persons – explains the lawyer Lai to ANSA – we asked that the body be exhumed to carry out a new autopsy and verify some elements that emerged which instead last time had not been investigated in depth, such as the marks found on the neck. Then a judicial investigation was requested regarding the injuries found on the victim’s body which were not compatible with a fall from a height of 35 metres”. In practice, it was requested that the fall be simulated using a particular dummy. In the coming weeks the Prosecutor’s Office will decide how to proceed. Meanwhile, Elisabetta, Anna and Gioele Murgia, Manuela’s sisters and brother, continue to fight and hope soon to learn the truth about her sister’s death. (HANDLE).
