What was found in the Poggi house eight months after Chiara's murder, on August 13, 2007, was in "good condition" when the box containing the garbage from the Garlasco villa was opened today. This was stated by Luciano Garofano, former commander of the RIS and now a defense consultant for Andrea Sempio, the friend of the victim's brother investigated in the new investigation by the Pavia Prosecutor's Office into one of the most controversial crimes of the last twenty years.
"It wasn't all rotten, it was all dry. All the evidence that was contained in that box was sampled. It was swabbed and now we will do the analysis," said the former Carabinieri general on the second day of the evidentiary incident, ordered by investigating judge Daniela Garlaschelli, in the offices of the Scientific Police inside the Milan Police Headquarters. Of the thirty acetate sheets examined, it emerged that all the fingerprints were negative for blood. Four more are still missing, which could not be analyzed due to a blackout in the offices of the Police Headquarters and in the surrounding area.
"I am calm," explained Sempio's lawyer, Angela Taccia. "My client has repeatedly reiterated that he was not in that house that morning. So in my opinion there is no problem in the analysis of the evidence contained in the garbage." However, Taccia raised an issue that will be discussed in the hearing before the investigating judge: "There is only the seizure report from the Judicial Police, not from a prosecutor, and I always repeat that the procedure is not optional," she stressed, implying a possible inadmissibility.
The box of evidence opened today is the one containing the objects collected at the Poggi house on the day of the crime, with inside the fragment of the bathroom mat stained by the trace of blood left by the killer's shoe, a cardboard box of breakfast cereals, the bag with the leftover flakes. But also the garbage collected eight months after the crime: two jars of Fruttolo, a carton of iced tea, a saucer, the plastic wrapper of the biscuits. They could be useful in the search for possible traces of biological material. "We have only swabbed all the evidence, and we have not yet completed it - explained Garofano -. We will continue with the acetates", the 34 sheets with the fingerprints collected in the first investigation, some attributed, others not, "then the analyses will begin".
The lawyers of Alberto Stasi, Chiara's boyfriend at the time of the murder, who is serving a 16-year sentence, have asked for new tests on trace 10 which was found to be bloodless but could hold surprises if analyzed a second time. "It depends on the results, the first of which we will have perhaps next week. I think we will continue in July and August - explained Garofano -. The first of July always here at the Police Headquarters because we will have to sample again the findings that had not given results or had given partial results. Today we want to conclude the sampling on the acetates that contained the papillary prints".
After that, there will be the transfer to Fatebenefratelli for more complex analyses, including those on the DNA found on Chiara's nails and attributed to Andrea Sempio. The Poggi family's lawyer, Gian Luigi Tizzoni, was cautious: "These are 18-year-old findings and will provide the answers they can provide" but "we are proceeding very seriously and very quickly. Very orderly," added Tizzoni. "The Scientific Police are absolutely admirable in this. We are happy that it is happening in cross-examination, as it happened in 2014 and in the years before. Everything that happens in cross-examination is fine with us. Everything that happens in front of a third-party expert is fine with us," he concluded. "When the operations are completed, you will see it. They are proceeding. Clearly, 18 years have passed."
(Online Union)