Almost eighteen years later, the search is still underway for the weapon with which Chiara Poggi was brutally killed on the morning of August 13, 2007. The weapon with which she was repeatedly hit in the face and head is no longer, as consultants and experts have established after lengthy analyses, a blunt object with a dual purpose of cutting and striking, but, as a superwitness said on TV, it could be a metal object similar to a fireplace poker.
After a day of searching, the Carabinieri seized some work tools found on the bottom of a dredged canal in Tromello, in the Pavia area, not far from the villa in Garlasco where Chiara was brutally massacred.
This morning the military, coordinated by the Pavia prosecutor's office, searched the home of Andrea Sempio, under investigation for the third time, of his parents, and also of Mattia Capra and Roberto Freddi, friends of his and Chiara's brother who are not under investigation.
The two then 19-year-olds, together with another boy now a friar, frequented the villa that was the scene of a crime for which, although Alberto Stasi was definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison as the sole perpetrator, investigators and detectives are investigating again. First of all, they have started hunting for the tool used to kill and which, based on a testimony collected by Le Iene, is thought to be a pole-shaped tool. With the support of the civil protection and firefighters, a ditch was emptied with a pump, near the house where the grandmother of Chiara's cousins, the twins Stefania and Paola Cappa, once lived.
The research is also concentrated there based on the story given by the superwitness in front of the cameras who claimed to have seen a woman, believed to be Stefania Cappa (never investigated), throw a metal object into the stream. Statements that were cross-checked with those, then retracted with a "I made it all up", by Marco Muschitta, a gas technician who had said he had noticed, on the morning of the murder, a blonde girl moving away from the villa in via Pascoli on a bicycle while holding a fireplace tool in her right hand.
The suspicion of a possible involvement of one of the twins, already raised during the first investigations, has always been discarded. Now instead the name of one of the two is dusted off and linked to that of Sempio, even though the two did not know each other: from the telephone records it appears that between May 1st and August 21st 2007, and therefore in the months before and in the weeks after the crime, there were no incoming or outgoing calls from the girl's cell phone, now a lawyer, with Sempio.
As for the alleged weapon that is believed to have been taken from the Poggi house, Chiara's parents themselves, "astonished by what is happening", explain that "all the fireplace tools are still there", while a missing hammer has never been found.
And it was a hammer, the trial documents known so far have established, that was almost certainly the object used to hit Chiara. In the new file coordinated by the deputy prosecutor of Pavia Stefano Civardi and the prosecutor Valentina De Stefano, an alternative scenario is offered to the one on which the Supreme Court has put an end.
So, while the day after tomorrow in front of the investigating judge Daniela Garlaschelli the evidentiary incident requested by the public prosecutors who reopened the case after a report presented by Stasi's defense will begin, this morning the men of the Arma knocked on the house of Sempio, who is "serene", of his parents (his mother was crying) and of his friends. They seized everything that could be "useful" to the investigation: the suspect's old phones, computers, notes, notebooks and they made a forensic copy of a series of cell phones. Also seized were the work tools and other objects considered to be of investigative interest and which will now have to be analyzed to ascertain their possible compatibility with the wounds reported by the victim. And this with the intent, after 18 years and a definitive sentence, to rewrite one of the most complex judicial cases in Italy.
(Online Union)
