A few hours after the murder of Chiara Poggi, on the afternoon of August 13, 2007, Andrea Sempio did not pass by chance, after having "noticed the presence of an ambulance and several people", as he stated in his statement, in via Pascoli, in Garlasco , near the Poggi villa.
This is another of the elements about which, according to the Pavia prosecutors, the clerk lied and which seems to indicate, even if it is not explicitly written in the documents, that the then 19-year-old knowingly returned to the scene of the crime , after killing the student with at least 12 shots to the head and face.
In the documents filed with the conclusion of the new investigation, which seeks to bring the 38-year-old to trial and assist Alberto Stasi in his request for a review, Deputy Prosecutor Stefano Civardi and prosecutors Valentina De Stefano and Giuliana Rizza, attaching maps of the area, write that "it is unclear why" Sempio, in the car with his father, after 3:00 PM, while passing from the boy's grandmother's house to the family home, "should have passed near Via Pascoli." This was not a long route and, in fact, was "in the exact opposite direction." In a 2008 statement, the young man stated that "while driving along Via Pavia, upon reaching Via Pascoli, I noticed the presence of an ambulance and people." According to the prosecutors, however, it is "unlikely that from the short stretch of Via Pavia traveled by the suspect and his father, the people present on Via Pascoli were visible, given the distance and the presence of two roundabouts." Sempio's version, on this point too, is "patently implausible," according to the prosecution.
Sempio, among other things, said in 2008 that he "went to Via Pascoli again out of curiosity around 4 p.m., alone." He also learned from a journalist that "a girl had been found dead inside her home," and that someone present had mentioned Chiara Poggi's name. He then returned home and later went to the Poggi house again with his father.
Furthermore, the Pavia Prosecutor's Office, in an effort to search for "traces of Sempio's past," which he had allegedly deleted, even initiated a rogatory letter in the United States to obtain "information from Meta," with the intent of recovering the contents of a Facebook profile that the clerk closed at the end of February 2017, after being questioned in the initial investigation , which was closed. The rogatory letter, however, the prosecutors explain, "did not fill the information gap."
In any case, through analysis of web searches, diaries and notes, the investigators have drawn up a profile of Sempio: a man obsessed with violence and "non-consensual" sex .
The defense's move
Six consultancies to exonerate Sempio , this is how the clerk's defense responds to the closure of the investigation.
The 38-year-old's defense team consulted experts and, first, took their client to the "Genomica" laboratory in Rome, where the technical tests will be carried out, with the participation of geneticist Marina Baldi.
Today, Sempio, as Liborio Cataliotti, of the defense team, explained, "met with our psychologist, psychotherapist, and criminologist." The goal "is to outline his personality to contrast with, or possibly complement" the profile drawn up by RACIS , the Carabinieri Scientific Investigations Group, to which the prosecution turned and which also worked on the handwritten notes seized last year from the home of Marco Poggi's former schoolmate.
But the personality test , announced last week, isn't the only expert opinion Sempio will be subjected to. There will also be "a forensic medical examination, to determine the cause and time of death, and an anthropometric examination, to verify whether the footprints match the dimensions of Andrea's foot."
Another will be used to "clean up the incomprehensible and difficult-to-listen audio from the wiretaps" that recorded, through a bug placed in the car, conversations with a friend and soliloquies—like the now-known ones about the "pen" with the intimate videos and about Chiara hanging up on him—which were published online today and described by the defense as "incomprehensible to a normal human ear."
Furthermore, the defense continues, "there will be a response to the BPA," that is, the analysis of blood traces at the crime scene to reconstruct the dynamics of the crime . To close the circle, there will also be "a supplementary fingerprint examination on fingerprint 33," the palm print found on the wall of the stairs at the bottom of which Chiara's lifeless body was discovered. Prosecutors believe this print was left by Sempio's "wet hand" as he leaned against the wall. This print, which the defense claims is not his, will also be cross-referenced "with fingerprint 45," which refers to a small bloodstain that, according to the Pavia investigation, was the result of a drip from an object, perhaps the murder weapon, which was found higher up.
The investigation, which began today, should be completed within a couple of weeks, during which time Sempio's lawyers, as Cataliotti has consistently stated, will be silent . Then, a lengthy defense brief, supported by various consultants, will be filed with the prosecutors, which is more likely than a decision to request questioning.
(Unioneonline)