Garlasco: the PlayStation detail, the ex-fireman and Sempio's faltering alibi

Then there is the lawyer Angela Taccia, Sempio's lawyer, who today claims that her client went down to the tavern to "get the board games" . In short, yet another version.

And Sempio himself, who in 2017 said he only frequented the living room and Chiara's bedroom, corrected his words two months ago, telling Sky Tg24: "I frequented the house, so I imagine there are traces of me around , it's very likely, then the house became the crime scene. Most likely there will be traces of me, I would expect it, I was there until a few days before. The only room I never frequented was the parents' bedroom ."

The PlayStation detail is therefore fundamental: if the suspect had not frequented the tavern on other occasions, footprint number 33 would place him at the crime scene.

We are also waiting for new analyses on the fingerprint, if they reveal the presence of blood we would be faced with a truth that could rewrite the entire history of the Garlasco crime.

The alibi

On the one hand the scientific analyses, on the other the attempt to dismantle an alibi, that of Sempio, which is now wavering .

The focus is on the telephone activity between August 12 and 13 (the day of the crime, which took place) of Daniela Ferrari, Sempio's mother. The night before she had exchanged a series of messages with Antonio B., a former firefighter stationed in Vigevano . And the following morning, on August 13 at 8:47, she sent two more text messages to the former firefighter. At 9:09 her cell phone connected to Gombolò's cell ("I had gone shopping with the family's only car," she explained) and from there a third text message was sent to Vigevano. Then the activity of her cell phone stopped. And the investigators hypothesize that it was she who parked in Piazza Ducale in Vigevano and that therefore the parking receipt with a 10:18 stamp used at the time of the first investigations to confirm her son's alibi is hers . Receipt, the Sempio family will say, found by the father while he was cleaning the car and kept for over a year by Daniela Ferrari, who handed it over to the Carabinieri in 2008 .

This is instead the activity of Sempio's phone on the morning of August 13. It starts at 9.58: several contacts with friends Mattia Capra and Roberto Freddi until 12.18. The cell connected is that of Garlasco, which covers the entire town, both his house and the Poggi villa .

Sempio says he went out and went to the Feltrinelli bookshop in Piazza Ducale in Vigevano. But he finds it closed: the start of the famous receipt, 10:18, is compatible with a trip that began at 10. The phone leaves no traces for over an hour, until 11:10, when it has other telephone contacts, all of which pass through the Garlasco cell . At that time he could have easily travelled the 16 km that separate Garlasco from Vigevano, twenty minutes are enough.

The Sempio number , Stasi's lawyers underline in a report, "is never connected to Vigevano" but is "active" in Garlasco . The inactivity of the phone between 10 and 11:10 does not deny Sempio's alibi, but neither does it provide him with certainty. The receipt is fundamental in this sense, but the investigators suspect that Andrea's mother went to Vigevano that day.

And here the role of Antonio B. becomes fundamental, the former firefighter from Vigevano who stated in his statement that he did not remember whether he had met Daniela Ferrari on 13 August 2007: «But when we spoke the day before, we often spent time together the next day» .

La Stampa went to look for him at home and wrote that the man does not want to talk, he has been locked inside for days. Furthermore, Andrea Sempio's mother, during the last interrogation, felt ill and was taken to the hospital just when the investigators gave her that name .

(Unioneonline/L)