"The fear of being the victim of a mistake is absolutely there." Andrea Sempio, under investigation in the new investigation by the Pavia Prosecutor's Office into the murder of Chiara Poggi, interviewed on Porta a Porta, said: "If there are doubts, if there is something that has not been carried out 100%, perhaps errors have even been made, it is right to redo the investigation and go and check" even if he does not believe that there were any in the investigations that concerned him and which closed him down in 2016. For the crime of Garlasco was sentenced to 16 years the victim's ex-boyfriend, Alberto Stasi.
"Frankly, for example, for what my involvement was also in 2016 - Sempio observed - I don't see any errors in the investigations". "The thought that there could be an error somewhere is possible", because "justice is administered by men and therefore - he continued - they can make mistakes". For this reason "the fear of being the victim of a mistake is absolutely there. I believe that if one of the elements that are pointed against me today is not considered explicable, that in my opinion would be a mistake. It is difficult to make people understand because almost two years have passed anyway. For people this was a story that they saw on television, they followed with interest: twists and turns and everything. But we have been going on for two years, it's madness".
The "final story seems far-fetched to me", adds Sempio. "This obsession of mine for Chiara, given by videos that you have confirmed have not been seen"; "me hitting on her on the phone, even threatening her" and then "a few days later she opens the door to me", "or me climbing over, waiting in the courtyard for her to let out the cats that are found in the house". "The final result - is his conclusion - in my opinion does not hold up".
We will know next week, perhaps as early as Monday, which and how many briefs will be filed with the Pavia Prosecutor's Office by Andrea Sempio's defence. After the new and second closure of the investigation against the 38-year-old and the filing of the documents which took place last September 28, his defenders, Liborio Cataliotti and Angela Taccia, instructed the pool of their consultants, each for his own 'argument', to evaluate the new attached reports, such as that of the forensic anthropologist Cristina Cattaneo and Biagio Eugenio Leone, which indicates that "the interval between the first injuries and the death" of Chiara "is more likely definable in the order of a few tens of minutes, prudently not less than approximately 15-30 minutes and plausibly between 30 and 60 minutes, although not scientifically definable with greater precision". And then that of Gianpaolo Iuliano and Nicola Caprioli in which it is claimed that the "dimensions of a size 42 Frau model shoe" are compatible "with the measurements of Sempio's foot". Cataliotti explained: "Next Monday we will have a meeting with the consultants to discuss and decide which points to respond to and what to respond to. We have until October 18th" to file.
Meanwhile, from what emerges, Luciano Garofano, at the time he was commander of the Parma RIS, asked to participate as an "observer" in two delicate inspections of the villa in Garlasco where, just under a month earlier, Chiara Poggi had been killed. But it was not authorized by the Vigevano prosecutor Rosa Muscio, who was then in charge of the investigation with the prosecutor Alfonso Lauro. The detail emerges from the documents collected by the Pavia prosecutors in the tranche of the investigation into the work of the RIS which is parallel to the one just closed against Andrea Sempio, accused of being responsible for the crime, not Alberto Stasi.
