It was a day that condensed the entire complexity of the Garlasco case in a few hours, between crowded judicial classrooms, cross -state declarations and new investigative tracks. The story that has held Italy since 2007 with suspended breath continues to produce twists: the investigating judge of Pavia, Daniela Garlaschelli, has excluded the now famous “imprint 33” from the evidentiary accident, while in Brescia a parallel investigation takes shape that shakes the credibility of those who had managed the first phases of the procedure from the foundability.
The 33 imprint remains outside
The imprint 33, for some time at the center of the procedural battles, will not enter the evidentiary accident. The lawyers of the Poggi family had insisted because it was included, but Alberto Stasi’s defense opposed, defining the “repeatable” assessment. Andrea Semplio’s defense has left to the judge’s decision, who appointed Giovanni Di Censo as a dactyloscopist for comparative assessments. For the lawyers of the Poggi family, represented by Francesco companion, the risk is that “the choices have already been made”.
The extension: New hearing on December 18th
Always the investigating judge Garlaschelli has granted to her experts – the geneticist Denise Albani and the expert Dactyloscopic Domenico Marche – a 70 -day extension to conclude the investigations. A choice that shifts the next hearing to 18 December, still leaving the central knot suspended: the two DNA profiles found under the nails of Chiara Poggi, one of which is attributable to Andrea Semplio according to the accusation.
The other front: suspicious corruption
At the same time, the Brescia prosecutor’s office has opened a new front that touches the former Pavese prosecutor Mario Venditti, investigated for corruption in judicial documents. Everything stems from a manuscript – called “pizzino” – seized at home semium during a search on 14 May. On the sheet, an inscription: “Venditti Gip archives x 20-30 euros”. A reminder that investigators consider the 2017 archive.
The money on the move
According to the investigations of the Guardia di Finanza, around that date there would have been withdrawals and checks for a total of about 40 thousand euros: checks signed by the paternal aunts of Andrea Seveio in favor of his brother Giuseppe, withdrawals in cash of father and son, and a 5 thousand euro check then immediately converted into cash. For the Brescian prosecutors, these are “anomalous” movements, linked to the hypothesis of a sum paid to obtain storage.
The two former carabinieri and the “opaque contacts”
But the suspicion does not stop at money. There are also two former carabinieri of the Pavia judicial police section, Silvio Sapone and Giuseppe Spoto. According to the documents, in 2017 they would have entertained “particularly confidence” relationships with the Semplio family. Spoto, for example, would have notified an act an hour late compared to the normal, entertaining himself with a long semium. Sapone, however, would have had confidence relations with the then prosecutor Venditti. A framework of “anomalies” which for the Prosecutor lets suspect an early knowledge of the topics of interrogation and investigations that are no longer neutral.
The reactions of the defenses
The lawyer front has moved with different shades, oscillating between the harshness of the accusations and the caution of those who try to bring the debate back into balance.
Antonio De Rensis, alberto stasi, has chosen the way of frankness: words marked as blows, defined by himself “unheard of”, to underline the scope of the Brescia investigation. “It is an exceptional turning point,” he said, remarking how the investigation that brought his client to prison was “dotted with errors and horrors”. A way to overturn the table: here it is not removed, adds. And adding, for De Rinesis, means making mistakes less.
Of a completely different tone Massimo Lovati, defender of Andrea Semplio. Its strategy is to resize, bring everything back to the ground: “Those figures are too low to talk about corruption. We need a calligraphic expertise to attribute that sheet”. Measured words, almost wanting to turn off the media fire that surrounds the “pizzino”.
Angela Taccia, another face of the defense of Semplio, has focused on the tranquility of her client. He told of a morning phone call in which Andrea would have said herself serene, even “quieter than usual”. As if the searches and accusations no longer scratched him, almost accustomed to living with suspicion.
Finally, Giada Bocellari, Stasi’s lawyer, chose the path of institutional respect. No controversy, no excess: “We have never allowed ourselves to denigrate the prosecutor. This investigation must not disturb anyone”. A warning, almost an invitation to keep the justice bar stop without giving in to the bewilderment.
The voice of the Poggi family
Each new hearing, every document that emerges from the archives or searches, reopens the same wound. For the Poggi family, the pain has never dormant, and the feeling is that of an infinite vortex in which Chiara’s memory is dragged between suspicions, opposing truths and twists that seem to have end.
To give voice to the bewilderment was once again the lawyer Francesco companion, Marco Poggi’s lawyer. His words have been clear, marked by a bitterness that lets the effort of seventeen years of processes and investigations leaked: “Chiara’s parents are bewildered. It is a wound that never heals”.
Companion does not use turns of words. It speaks of “paradox of paradoxes”, because in each procedural passage is added a new piece that risks feeding the confusion instead of bringing the truth closer. The fear is that the umpteenth wave of suspicious genres only “powders who harm the credibility of justice”. Meanwhile, the Poggi family remains there, trapped in timeless pain, forced to relive every time on the morning of August 13, 2007, when Chiara’s life was broken.
The carpet searches
Since dawn, carabinieri and financiers have searched the homes of Venditti (in Pavia, Genoa and Campione d’Italia), those of the two former carabinieri investigated, in addition to the house of parents and seeds. Nine in total the people achieved by the search decree. In Garlasco, from the semium family villa, the investigators came out with boxes full of material.
The unresolved knot
Seventeen years after the murder of Chiara Poggi, the judicial affair continues to oscillate between twists and turns never dormant. The “judicial truth” that condemned Alberto Stasi to 16 years in prison has never managed to appease the doubt. Today the spotlights are focused on Andrea Semplio and on the alleged corruption system that would have protected his name. But each new element risks multiplying questions rather than offering answers.
Appointment in December
On 18 December we will return to the investigating judge Garlaschelli, with the new results of the investigations. In the meantime, the Brescia investigation will continue its course. To use the words of the lawyer partner, the impression is that “you fight without exclusion of blows”.
And that the Garlasco case, once again, is not destined to find peace.
