The genetic profiles that emerged from the DNA traces found under Chiara Poggi's fingernails are compatible "for two of those samples" with Andrea Sempio's DNA, while "Alberto Stasi can be excluded as the donor of the traces" .
This is what Ugo Ricci, a biologist and forensic geneticist who wrote the defense consultancy for Alberto Stasi, which led to reopening the investigation into the Garlasco crime 18 years after the events, states. "Mine is a reassessment of data already present in the trial files - he specifies - confirmed by a world-famous expert like Lutz Roewer, who carried out an assessment on the same data sent anonymously". The DNA trace, the experts confirm, is "extremely legible" .
But it wasn't just the scientific tests that reopened the investigation. Two other pieces of evidence would put Andrea Sempio in trouble: three phone calls and a receipt kept for about a year, considered highly suspicious .
The three calls made from Sempio's cell phone, on August 4, 7 and 8. All very short, 10, 2 and 21 seconds respectively , which aroused suspicion. Especially the second and third, as Sempio would have known very well that Chiara was home alone and that her brother Marco, his friend, was on vacation in Trentino with his parents . The other element that aroused suspicion is the parking ticket from Vigevano, shown by Sempio to demonstrate that on the morning of the crime he was not in Garlasco, while the checks on the telephone cells say the opposite .
The hypothesis that has been put forward is that this is a pre-conceived alibi since, the reasoning goes, a paid parking ticket is usually thrown away once it has expired, and instead it was kept for over a year .
Further investigations will be carried out on the compatibility of the size of the footprints found at the crime scene with the size of Sempio's shoes and on the fingerprints found in the villa in Garlasco.
Sempio turns 37 today. A resident of Garlasco, he is not at home or at work, in a telephone shop from which he took a few days off. The lawyer defending him, Massimo Lovati, described him as "very tired" . "Andrea is sick", he added, reporting that tomorrow he will accompany his client to the headquarters of the Carabinieri forensic team in Milan where the man will undergo a DNA test: "He must do it, he cannot oppose it".
(Unioneonline/L)