Footprint 33 on the wall of the house in Garlasco where Chiara Poggi was killed "cannot be attributed to me or to anyone else". Andrea Sempio, interviewed on 'Porta a Porta', is convinced of this. "If we fail to convince a judge of this thing, and therefore it becomes 'number 33 is from Sempio', that's fine" - adds the suspect in the new investigation - "but it's on a wall in a place where there are footprints of other people. Today, from what I saw from the latest consultation" from the prosecutors "we can't say that it's bloody. We can say that it can't be ruled out that there wasn't blood. However, I don't need to know what can't be ruled out, we need certainty." "It's hard to live," he later confessed regarding his state of mind over the course of these weeks. "I say that today I'm not living because my life today is either locked in my room or at the lawyer's or on a trip when maybe we go to meet with consultants."
"No miscarriage of justice on Stasi, just sentence"
For Sempio there was no miscarriage of justice against Alberto Stasi, sentenced to 16 years for the murder of Chiara Poggi. "In my opinion the sentence is fair", he told the microphones of 'Porta a Porta'. "There are things that don't convince me in the alternative story that would see Stasi as innocent. Some things that are raised don't convince me. It seems to me that they are more logical and explained as they were explained at the time", he added. And again, returning to his involvement in the investigation: "I frankly think it's all explainable."
"I hope I don't have to go through all the stages of a real trial"
"My only doubt", he underlined regarding his hypothetical indictment, "is that there will be so much stuff to evaluate, so many different elements. I hope to be able to resolve everything in the preliminary hearing, not to have to face a real trial with all the various degrees". But the fact remains that "as much as you can feel confident about certain elements and say 'ok in my opinion this thing can be explained', in any case then I would have to be able to explain it in the classroom and it's not so automatic". "So the thought that we could end up in prison is there. Frankly" - he concluded - "I try not to think about it, I really try not to imagine that eventuality". Instead, responding to a question about the bloody shoe print found in Garlasco, he said: "All the shoes that I remember and that I still have at home, even old ones, are all 44." "We also did the test with size 42 shoes and they didn't fit," he added. And as regards the DNA under Chiara's nails, he underlined that "the conclusion of the Albani report was that we cannot do anything with that trace. It is not a solid trace, it is not replicated, it is mixed, it is degraded. Every time they analyzed it, different results came out. It seems to me that the DNA issue is now resolved". Sempio then said that he had spoken to Chiara twice and "if there had been something particular in those calls, for example a disturbance, she probably would have reported it either to her boyfriend or her brother or her family saying 'look, so-and-so called'.". Instead, "there is no one who can say that I have ever spoken to him about Chiara or that Chiara has ever spoken about me so even this idea that there could be an interest" - he reiterated - "is nowhere to be found". And the girl's intimate videos, "I have never seen them, I discovered their existence through the media."
