The Garlasco crime still remains without a certain truth. Pg Cedrangolo, who asked for Stasi’s conviction to be annulled, speaks for the first time
Trials, convictions and new investigations. Everything and nothing has been said about the crime of Garlasco and its protagonists, without ever reaching a certain truth. Certainly there are only reasonable doubts, to use a term that, with the murder of Chiara Poggi, has become commonly used.
The only one definitively convicted, Alberto Stasi, is moving towards a review of the trial. Prosecutors in the new investigation believe he was not even present at the scene at the time of the murder. One fact clearly emerges from the procedural documents themselves: shortly before 10 that morning, Stasi was on his home computer working on his degree thesis. Yet he was convicted.
Oscar Cedrangolo’s testimony on Garlasco
Oscar Cedrangolo is now shedding light on some of the deepest contradictions of the case Attorney General of the Supreme Courtthe man who in 2015 asked for Stasi’s conviction to be overturned. For the first time he gave an interview, to White Zone on Rete 4, in which he explained the reasons for that choice.
“In this place and in these classrooms, the accused are not judged but the sentences are judged”, declared Cedrangolo. «It is established whether the sentence is done well or badly. If it is done well it is confirmed, if done badly it is cancelled. With these papers I am not able to say whether he is innocent or not, and neither can you.”
The clue that turned out to be false
Cedrangolo then entered into the merits of the conviction sentence in appeal bis, built on a mosaic of seven pieces of evidence. The first, and most fragile, was the idea that Stasi had tried to pass off the murder as a domestic accident. “It turned out to be a solemn hoax,” he ruled. The reason is simple: that reconstruction was never put forward by Chiara’s boyfriend, but by the carabinieri, the first to enter the house that morning.
For theStasi lawyer, Antonio De Rensisthis is a real turning point. “This is the real big journalistic scoop because no one had ever interviewed him,” commented the lawyer. «The incipit should be printed and remembered by those who evoke the Stasi sentence».
The situation of Andrea Sempio
In the meantime, the investigations have focused on Andrea Sempio, currently the only person under investigation. But even in this case the evidence does not appear overwhelming. The three main elements against him (the so-called “soliloquies”, a fingerprint and a trace of DNA under Chiara’s nails), are all contested by the defence, which has presented expert reports to dismantle them one by one.
Sempio’s lawyers are also looking for elements overlooked in the original investigation, including a possible escape route that was never seriously evaluated. A witness had reported finding a black bicycle abandoned in the fields behind the house. But that report was not taken into consideration.
