Gavino Raoul Piras, 59, has a background in the secret services, like his colleague who was arrested on the same charge: passing classified information to a contact in Moscow. Four others are under investigation.
In the house where he lived with his father in Conegliano, papers were seized on which he had written his intention to "commit violent acts with the use of knives or blades."
The victim is a 54-year-old man, he managed to save the children from the mercy of the waves that had pushed them out to sea, then he collapsed on the shoreline