The crucial phase of the new investigation into the Garlasco crime begins. Eighteen years after the murder of Chiara Poggi, killed on August 13, 2007, the Pavia Prosecutor's Office has opened the investigation for the second time, in the belief that the judicial affair that led to a final conviction of 16 years in prison for Alberto Stasi, the young woman's boyfriend at the time, needs to be rewritten.
This time, the only suspect is Andrea Sempio, a friend of the victim's brother. Expert geneticists and fingerprint experts will meet on Tuesday at the offices of the Scientific Police of the Milan Police Headquarters for the evidentiary incident , during which DNA and fingerprints, mostly collected and discarded in the past because they were useless or unusable, will have to be analyzed. The unrepeatable investigation will be coordinated by Denise Albani and Domenico Marchigiani, the experts appointed by the investigating judge Daniela Garlaschelli, the consultants for the prosecutors, Carlo Previderè and Pierangela Grignani, and for the defense, Luciano Garofano, who was the commander of the Parma RIS. For Chiara's parents and brother, there will be Marzio Capra, Dario Redaelli and Calogero Biondi; for Stasi, Ugo Ricci and Oscar Ghizzoni.
The experts, who will certainly engage in a heated debate if not a full-blown scientific battle, will work on the material collected last Thursday at the Carabinieri barracks in Milan and at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Pavia.
Most likely, the work will begin with the examination of the custody reports of the finds, which should have written down a series of data: who kept them and how they were kept and even who ensured that for some hidden reason they were not altered. After that, before the postponement to a new date, the general program will be agreed on how to proceed, that is, whether to first analyze the protective bands with the fingerprints, including number 10 found inside the entrance door of the villa on Via Pascoli, which investigators and investigators consider very important and from which they hope to extract genetic material; or, as seems more realistic, whether to focus immediately on the garbage, and in this case the team will move to the laboratories of the Fatebenefratelli hospital.
Or whether to dedicate themselves to DNA, one of the key points of the case and on which, it is assumed, a clash between lawyers. Having faded away the hypothesis of taking the plaster to the laboratory (the wrapping has disappeared) with the slap that Sempio, a frequent visitor to the Poggi house, according to investigators left on the wall of the stairs at the bottom of which the victim was found lifeless, the game will be played largely on the material extracted from Chiara Poggi's nails : for the documents of the trial that ended in 2015 it is "anonymous", but the scientific progress of recent years would have allowed Stasi's defense and the public prosecutors to attribute it to the current suspect, unlike the defense and the Poggi's lawyers. This is a knot that will have to be untied and that will be decisive in putting a full stop to the investigation. Which, as Massimo Lovati, one of Sempio's defenders, keeps repeating, "is insidious: the complicity in the murder is just a devilry used to reopen the investigation and accuse my client. I'm trying to contain it, but we'll continue like this until the end. We're like Don Quixote against windmills."
(Online Union)