Sardinian banditry

Sardinian banditry was a criminal phenomenon typical of Sardinia.

The phenomenon of banditry has a particular importance in the history of Sardinia. The Code enacted in the reign of Carlo Felice (1827) stated that: "were reputed bandits that were not declared as such by the public pregone: I already sentenced to the jail; those who investigated the crime of similar major penalty, had already been cited to defend himself, as well as those whose arrest was decreed by the competent court, if it gave to the bush to escape from justice."

A bandit, then, is one who has voluntarily removed from the execution of a command of the law. The Sardinian bandit beats the campaign and commits other crimes.

The banditry in Sardinia was already known since the times of the ancient Romans, when he assumed the character of latent "national" rebellion and a social nature. In the Roman period, banditry was primarily the cattle rustling and damage to property. Often those who practiced it were shepherds, the inhabitants of the mountains; speakers as Cicero called it latrunculi mastrucati.

Eleanor in his Carta de Logu to suppress banditry authorized remedies not exactly conventional: it was considered an act of self-defense killing by anyone with a bandit who was sentenced, he had not made up. In 1477, there is news, though not official, the first kidnapping for ransom in Sardinia, which occurred in the Baronia of Posada between Olbia and Siniscola. During the next centuries the phenomenon continued to occur but became particularly evident during the Spanish period.

Beginning in the sixteenth century, the countries were racing from homines facinorosos en que van quadrilla, real gangs like that of Manunzio Fiore. The phenomenon was of such importance that in 1574 it was ordained a Prammatica with which they were taken to prevent the formation of gangs and especially to prevent the facilitation of (often by the same landowners) made possible criminal activity. During the seventeenth century the phenomenon of armed gangs developed further: the countries of Sassari, Nuoro, Goceano and Gallura, thanks to the nature of the place, became the scene of companies fearsome gangs were soon in a position to compromise seriously public order.

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