“Find number 33” . This is how the palm print of a hand found near the body of Chiara Poggi, on the right wall overlooking the stairs leading to the tavern of the villa in Garlasco , was classified in 2007.
It was close to the thumbprint of Marco Poggi, the victim's brother.
The trace is one of the 56 already found at the time of the crime and at the time considered by the RIS to be bloodless and illegible , but which investigators and detectives in recent months have decided to re-examine with new scientific techniques and has turned out to belong to Andrea Sempio , a friend of Marco Poggi who is being investigated in the new inquiry into the Garlasco crime.
The print, we read in a note from the Pavia prosecutor Fabio Napoleone , «was left by the right palm of Andrea Sempio for the correspondence of 15 fingerprint details» . The trace, specifies the prosecutor, was analyzed «in light of the new technical potential available, both hardware and software».
Yet another dramatic turn of events on a day like yesterday, when a turning point was expected from the interrogation of Sempio, who did not appear before the prosecutors, contesting a procedural flaw in the summons .
The prosecutors also reviewed a 2020 report which stated that it is "logical-factual" that the fingerprint "belongs to the murderer."
And it is precisely on the basis of this deduction, supported by other elements, that yesterday the prosecutors summoned Sempio, Alberto Stasi and Marco Poggi for separate and simultaneous hearings. If the first did not show up, the other two did and answered the questions, from which emerged this very important clue that would rewrite the story of the crime by placing Sempio at the crime scene .
The 37-year-old's defense , however, maintains that the footprint is not sufficient to place him at the crime scene. Andrea Sempio "visited every corner of the house, except the bedroom of Chiara and Marco's parents" , including, therefore, the tavern and the stairs at the bottom of which Chiara Poggi's body was found and where, on the right wall, the footprint was found, explains the lawyer Angela Taccia, who is assisting Sempio together with the lawyer Massimo Lovati.
From what we have learned, it is possible that in the new investigations into the Garlasco murder , analyses will also be carried out to identify any traces of blood in the footprint .
In addition to the fingerprint, other elements collected that raise suspicions of Sempio , although he has always proclaimed his innocence. We begin with the DNA extracted from Chiara's nails, once anonymous and that the analyses carried out in the last two years, both by Stasi's defense and by the prosecutors, attribute to him . On that profile there will be new tests in the context of an evidentiary incident ordered by the Pavia investigating judge Daniela Garlaschelli, who will also concern his palm print.
Then there are the three suspicious calls to the Poggi home landline justified by Marco Poggi's friend as attempts to contact Chiara's brother because he did not remember whether or not he had already left for the holidays in Trentino. But, this is the belief of the investigators, it is unlikely that Sempio did not know, given that he had been with Marco Poggi the very evening before the latter left.
Again, the alleged inconsistencies on the parking receipt in Vigevano dated August 13, 2007 and handed over to investigators a year later, almost as if he wanted to pre-establish an alibi.
All of these things were already known, but there are two more that are absolutely new. Some of Sempio's manuscripts found in the garbage last February and seized , some of which seem to have something to do with the crime. In one in particular, which attracted the attention of investigators, Sempio is said to have written: "I have done such bad things that no one can imagine."
Finally, investigators discovered that at the time of Sempio's second interrogation, the one in 2008 in which he showed the parking receipt, things went differently than what was reported in the report . The twenty-year-old felt unwell when asked questions by the police and an ambulance was called, the prosecutors had confirmation of this circumstance from the emergency responders. An intervention lasting 40 minutes, then Sempio recovered. But no one had ever reported it in the report .
(Unioneonline/L)