Alberto Stasi, definitively sentenced to 16 years for the murder of Chiara Poggi, is experiencing "a tsunami of emotions" now that there is a new suspect, Andrea Sempio. "I hope that we can get to the truth, to justice, especially for Chiara - he says in an interview with Le Iene to be broadcast tomorrow - for her family, for everyone. I live with confident expectation, with hope. What I have in my heart - he adds - is that the truth comes out, that everything that needs to emerge, that hasn't yet emerged, comes to light. Nothing else".
In prison for ten years, Stasi says he still believes in fair justice: "I think it is possible, always tied to the will of the people who manage and administer it. " What prison took away from him are "many years of life, certainly years of life that you have the right to live peacefully as you see fit, which instead will never come back." He faced the final sentence as "when you are diagnosed with an incurable disease, the news arrives, you have to take it and face it for what it is, you have no alternatives, there are no plan Bs, so do what you have to do, simply this." He never thought of escaping because "innocent people don't escape, absolutely not."
Next Monday Chiara Poggi would have turned 44 and in an interview published today by Corriere della Sera her parents recall that on the grave of their daughter - killed in the family villa in Garlasco, in the province of Pavia, in 2007 - as every year they will bring a bouquet of white roses. «The truth about the murder is already written. If they want to investigate, let them do it but the truth remains that of the final sentence against Alberto Stasi».
For Giuseppe and Rita Poggi it is "neither right nor appropriate" that "he comes out with the statements we have heard in recent days, that he gives interviews to declare his innocence or that he speaks making insinuations about Sempio's DNA. We would like to remind the world that he is a prisoner definitively convicted, a sentence that among other things he has tried to overturn several times with revisions and appeals without success. Does the surveillance judge really give him permission to speak freely?"
"It's mind-blowing to turn the truth around like this," explains Rita Poggi. "The other day I went to the market and met people who said to me: let's hope for the truth... And I said: but what truth? Look, it's all stories. And yet this narration of things confuses the minds of people who don't know the documents. We end up making the only certain culprit we have pass as the victim. It's not fair. Does anyone ever think about us?" "They build castles on the details regarding Sempio," adds the father, "but can anyone build castles on all the evidence regarding Stasi?"
(Online Union)