Chiara Poggi's parents speak on TV: "After 19 years she has the right to rest in peace"

They broke the silence and went on television to talk about their daughter Chiara, killed in 2007 in Garlasco, Giuseppe and Rita Poggi. Not so much about the new investigation that made them fall "into the media circus", not about new and old evidence, but about Chiara who "after nineteen years has the right to rest in peace". And to explain that for them the culprit is the only person definitively sentenced to 16 years for the crime, namely Alberto Stasi, even if now a new investigation by the Pavia Prosecutor's Office has investigated his murder in the house in Garlasco where Andrea Sempio, a friend of their son Marco, still lives.

"For us, what the sentence of the Italian State told us is valid. When the Italian justice system tells us something else, we will take note of it" they explained to Verissimo on Canale 5. "We have had 5 trials that lasted 8 years, and they are long" recalled Giuseppe. "It's not that we are stubborn. If justice gives us a new culprit, we will take note" but "it's not that because a prosecutor's office carries out an investigation, then the light bulb goes on and one changes his mind". And it is certainly not because they should return the compensation decided in Stasi's conviction that they have this idea. The money (on which they made "a transaction with a lower amount to meet" Alberto's mother) is all in a current account.

Rather, he and his wife are hurt by the media circus which is "heavy" and which has been going on for a year and a half, "every day, every day", so much so that the mayor of Garlasco has instituted a ban on access to non-residents in the street where they live, to avoid journalists and cameras stationed in front of the house. And they are "humiliated" by the wiretaps of telephone conversations with Marco, who no longer lives in Garlasco". Indeed, more than by the wiretaps, "by the fact that they have become public knowledge on TV and in newspapers". Struck and wounded, therefore, by the insinuations about Chiara "as if she were the culprit" "dirtying" her memory with things that "the Pavia Prosecutor's Office could tone down". It was a "stab", add Rita and Giuseppe, to read "in a weekly magazine that Marco Poggi returned to Garlasco at night to kill your sister", Marco is now "not a boy" but "this is not easy to handle" observed Chiara's mother. They think of him too.

"We found ourselves having to fight for our daughter and for him, to guarantee him serenity" explained Giuseppe.

For all this Rita and Giuseppe went on television.

To talk about Chiara, her desire to study, her confidentiality, the jeans that needed to be shortened, the last time they saw her, her return to the house months later, once it had been released from seizure.

As for Sempio, Chiara's parents limited themselves to saying that he was a friend of their son, "a normal boy". The mother saw it, not the father. "I have never seen Sempio at my house even though my son told me he came two or three times a week" said the man. The two then said that at the beginning they believed Alberto Stasi but changed their minds as the investigations continued, and then broke off relations when he was arrested the first time. And now they do not intend to meet either him or his mother. "No one has ever asked us but honestly now is not the time." And once the sentence has been served? "I don't know if I'm happy to meet him, I don't think so - Giuseppe observed - but I can't predict the future". One thing is certain for them: "after 19 years Chiara has the right to rest in peace".

"We have never opposed any investigation, even during the years of the trials we asked for everything to be verified, for example the DNA on the nails, the hair. We have always asked them to carry out all the investigations and checks they want. We have nothing against it. We would only like - they concluded - that in the end the story was over because after 19 years it is time for it to end also out of respect for Chiara because Chiara has the right to rest in peace".