Massimo Lovati relaunches the Garlasco case: Stasi is a liar but not a murderer, Sempio innocent, and a hitman behind the death of Chiara Poggi
The curtain never really falls on Garlasco. When you think you have reached the last act of the tragedy, here comes a new chapter (or a new character, or a new statement) to confuse the facts again. Too bad we are not in a play by Euripides or Shakespeare, but in reality. Of course, perhaps not even these giants of world literature could concoct a tragedy so sophisticated as to surpass fiction and lead to the grotesque, the Kafkaesque, despite being (alas) a completely real murder.
This time he’s the one talking Massimo Lovati, former lawyer of Andrea Sempioguest of the program «Iceberg Lombardia» on Telelombardia. His words are clear, disruptive (as usual) and call into question aspects that now seemed defined by justice.
“Stasi is a liar, but not a murderer,” Lovati declared live. “He has remained silent all these years because he was threatened.” A statement that clashes head-on with the definitive condemnation of the victim’s ex-boyfriend, but also goes further. In fact, it suggests the existence of a secret that remained buried during the entire trial process. Lovati does not provide evidence to support this thesis, but launches it into the public arena with the strength of someone who knows the case from the inside, someone who has lived it for many years and knows things that are unknown to others.
Example is “the shadow of innocence”
The lawyer equally decisively excludes the involvement of his former client. Sempio, defined by Lovati as “the shadow of innocence”, would not have had any credible motive to kill Chiara Poggi. As for the receiptan element that over the years has fueled suspicions and reconstructions, Lovati dismisses it as «a lightness of an innocent»a gesture dictated by panic, not by an attempt at misdirection.
It is a reading that tries to clear the field of any shadow on the current suspect, directing attention elsewhere. But elsewhere, for Lovati, it means in a much more disturbing and complex direction, a direction that goes beyond the names (and hypotheses) that have circulated so far on the Garlasco case.
A hitman, not a fight
The real motive for the murder, according to Sempio’s former lawyer, would have nothing to do with petty crime or the alleged drug rings that have been talked about again in recent weeks. «Chiara was killed because she discovered something big»Lovati declared, “nothing but cocaine like I’m hearing these days.” A thesis that opens up darker scenarios and that pushes Lovati to the point of hypothesizing the figure of a hitman, an external and hired executor. An interpretation without official investigative evidence, but which overturns the consolidated narrative of the crime. The closing is entrusted to a bittersweet prediction: «Chiara’s killer will never be found, but Stasi will be rehabilitated».
