Their voices cracked with emotion as they recounted the moments of the attack and the last moments of their friend. In the Court of Assizes of Cagliari today, the two women who accompanied Maria Bonaria Contu on her daily walk on May 2, 2017 testified. The woman was killed in the mountain community of Capoterra in the province of Cagliari with 11 stab wounds and the deputy prosecutor Paolo De Angelis believes that Ignazio Frailis, a 47-year-old unemployed man accused of voluntary homicide, killed because of the verbal abuse and swear words that the old woman's parrot addressed to the accused on a daily basis. The behavior of the bird and the tensions between Frailis and the victim's family were at the center of the other testimonies of the neighbors. But the most dramatic moment was when the two friends of Maria Bonaria Contu recounted the attack. “He didn’t seem angry,” one said, “but then he threw me to the ground and grabbed our friend: he held her with one arm and stabbed her with the other. A horrifying scene.” The defendant was in the courtroom, silent, next to his lawyers Fabio Pili and Gigi Porcella, while the family filed a civil action with their lawyer Carlo Pilia. On September 17, psychiatric experts will be heard to clarify whether Frailis was capable of understanding and willing at the time of the crime. The man has been detained in Uta prison for a year, after his arrest shortly after the murder.
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