Femicide of Cinzia Pinna, the trial begins in Ragnedda

Killed with three gunshots to the face and then hidden under a tree in the ConcaEntosa wine estate, between Palau and Arzachena. The body of Cinzia Pinna, a 33-year-old from Castelsardo who died on the night between 11 and 12 September 2025, was found twelve days later. For that crime tomorrow morning, Emanuele Ragnedda, 41 years old, a wine entrepreneur and self-confessed feminicide, will appear before the judges of the Court of Assizes of Sassari.

Locked up in the Bancali prison in Sassari, he must answer for voluntary homicide aggravated by torture and cruelty. Ragnedda, defended by lawyers Luca Montella and Gabriele Satta, is the only defendant in the trial. In the early stages of the investigation, carried out by Tempio Pausania prosecutor Noemi Mancini, Rosa Maria Elvo, the entrepreneur's ex-partner, and Luca Franciosi, a young maintenance worker and acquaintance of his, also ended up in the register of suspects: both were found to be completely unrelated to the affair and exonerated, after being called into question by Ragnedda himself who, in the case of Franciosi, pointed him out as an accomplice in the operations to conceal the body.

Without clothes in the lower part and in a state of decomposition, the corpse had been transported to that point, while inside the house an attempt was made to clean the blood from everything. According to the prosecution, Ragnedda alone hid the body and organized the crime scene. No trace of either the ex-partner or the maintenance worker was found by the Cagliari RIS carabinieri who analyzed the scene of the feminicide during several inspections. Franciosi, defended by the lawyers Nicoletta and Maurizio Mani, joined the civil action, as did the victim's family members, represented by the lawyers Antonella and Nino Cuccureddu.

A feminicide that shook Gallura and the town of Castelsardo: Cinzia Pinna belongs to a family of hoteliers well known in the north of the island and Emanuele Ragnedda is part of the dynasty of the founders of Capichera, a well-known winery producing fine wines. Ragnedda, after confessing in the Palau carabinieri barracks, then claimed to have acted in response to an attack on the part of the woman. His defenders would have in their hands the first results of the consultancy of the specialist Dario Radaelli and Professor Ernesto D'Aloja, results which in their opinion could confirm the entrepreneur's thesis, namely that he had suffered an attack by Cinzia Pinna shortly before the gunshots.