«Next week we will file a report aimed at highlighting a possible biological trace in footprint number 33 », that is, the one attributed to Andrea Sempio and identified on the stairwell wall not far from where the lifeless body of Chiara Poggi was found on 13 August 2007 .
This was confirmed by the lawyer Antonio De Rensis, who, together with his colleague Giada Bocellari, is defending Alberto Stasi , the then boyfriend of the 26-year-old who is finishing serving 16 years in prison for the crime.
The report will be filed in the next few days with the Pavia prosecutors in the investigation against Sempio.
In essence, Stasi's lawyers argue that the print could be stained with blood . The experts base their argument on the fact that the color, an intense red, due to contact with the reagent (ninhydrin) and the size of the print depend on the organic material, which contains blood.
For this reason, the lawyers are asking the Prosecutor's Office to be able to carry out some analyses.
One of the three geneticists appointed by Stasi's defense, Pasquale Linarello , told Agi: «We will ask the Prosecutor's Office to carry out a series of in-depth analyses on some fingerprints in the Poggi house, including number 33. Number 10 is also of interest, the latter already the subject of the evidentiary incident and, hypothetically, attributable to another person who participated in the crime».
Linarello recalls that the blood tests in 2007 first gave a dubious result, then a negative one, "but today things have changed: there are more instruments sensitive to DNA because the chemistry of the reagents has changed. The goal is to understand if the trace is attributable only to Sempio or if it is a mix of Sempio and Chiara Poggi ."
The Carabinieri of Milan, in a 2020 report, wrote that it is "logical-factual" that that footprint belongs to the murderer .
(Unioneonline/L)