Other twists are being prepared in the investigation into the murder of Chiara Poggi, which occurred on 13 August 20 years ago in her home in Garlasco, in the province of Pavia. They were announced by the lawyer Giada Bocellari, a lawyer who, together with Antonio De Rensis, is working on the request for review of Alberto Stasi's 16-year sentence for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. These are further elements after those that the forty-three-year-old's defense brought to the attention of the Pavia Prosecutor's Office which reopened the investigation by investigating Andrea Sempio, a friend of Chiara's brother, for murder.
Elements therefore which add to the fact that in 2007, after two tests that gave positive results for Chiara's DNA on the pedals of Alberto's bicycle, two others were negative but were not included in the file. "What I can certainly say - Bocellari observed to Omnibus on La7 - is that there are certainly other elements that the defense has available today, one of which will cause a particular sensation in my opinion, which however does not concern the 2007 investigations". This would not be documentary evidence but, according to the lawyer, the new element in view of the request for review of the trial "will make a lot of noise". Perhaps a new testimony. Stasi's team of defense experts carried out several investigations. In addition to the one on the genetic profiles of the consultants Pasquale Linarello and Ugo Ricci, others would also concern the rereading of Andrea Sempio's wiretaps from 2017, and evaluations of the walking and therefore the shoes of Alberto Stasi and Andrea Sempio and the dot sole prints left at the scene of the murder. Andrea Sempio reiterated that there are no elements against him capable of going to trial and this was also supported by his lawyer Liborio Cataliotti, who on Tg1 defined the conclusion of the prosecutor's consultants on footprint 33 as "sibylline to say the least". Meanwhile tomorrow Chiara Poggi's parents will speak, interviewed on Verissimo after a protracted and painful silence in recent months, while Friday's words from their consultant Marzio Capra have triggered the reaction of Francesco Maria Avato and Matteo Fabbri, former Stasi consultants, ready to sue him. The two experts denied having ever been informed of the two negative tests, not only on 24 September 2007 but not even subsequently, and defined his statements as "very serious and incomprehensible". For this reason they now intend to ask to be heard by the Pavia Prosecutor's Office "as people informed of the facts, so that this unfortunate affair is definitively clarified".
And the papers on the investigation for which Andrea Sempio's father, Giuseppe, the lawyer Federico Soldani and the former carabiniere Silvio Sapone are being investigated were sent from Brescia to the Pavia Prosecutor's Office, after the dismissal of the case by the former prosecutor Maurizio Venditti, accused of alleged corruption to have the thirty-seven-year-old's position dismissed in 2017. The Pavia magistrates would be focusing on them, but also on the role of Andrea himself. In the meantime, the general prosecutor of Milan Francesca Nanni (called to evaluate the documents transmitted by the Pavia Prosecutor's Office on the investigations against Sempio for a possible review of the trial of Alberto Stasi) warned by Leopolda about the dangers of "parallel courts" which are "on social media, on TV or in newspapers". "Judicial news - he reiterated - must remain judicial news".
Former Stasi consultants ready to sue Capra: 'Never knew about the negatives of the pedal'
It is "absolutely" false that Alberto Stasi's former technical consultants Francesco Maria Avato and Matteo Fabbri learned in 2007 of the two false negatives in the bicycle pedal tests after the positive with Chiara Poggi's genetic profile.
The two experts underline this to deny what was said in Quarto Grado by the Poggi family consultant Marzio Capra according to which "on 24 September 2007 the undersigned Stasi CTs, Prof Avato and Dr Fabbri, were informed by the Ris of the existence of two negative runs on the 'pedal' sample during a meeting which took place on the same date, it is specified that the circumstance is absolutely false".
"Such very serious and incomprehensible statements by Dr. Marzio Capra, which cast heavy shadows on the actions of the undersigned - they announced - will find adequate protection in the competent bodies. In the meantime, the undersigned will ask the Public Prosecutor's Office of Pavia to be heard as people informed on the facts, so that this unfortunate matter can be definitively clarified".
"The undersigned have never had knowledge (neither visual nor documentary), neither on that date nor subsequently during the trial, that that sample had given negative results. Unfortunately, these have only recently become known from new developments - observed Avato and Fabbri - Proof of this is that they were never included in the file nor were they mentioned in any procedural document or consultancy, much less were they sent to the experts of Judge Dr. Vitelli in 2009". The two consultants also recalled "what was highlighted by Prof Angelo Giarda at the validation hearing on 27 September 2007, who expressly stated that the Stasi CTs had and knew only two tracks, one for Chiara Poggi (for comparison) and a single, positive one for the pedal (race on 19 September 2007)".
