From the DNA on Chiara Poggi’s nails, to the anomalous phone calls, to the motive. All the clues about the suspect Andrea Sempio
In Garlasco justice just can’t find peace. And not even the men who end up inside it like in a meat grinder can find it. The hot name, of course, is that of Andrea Sempio37 years old, under investigation for the murder of Chiara Poggiseventeen years after that 13 August 2007 which seemed to have consigned everything to the archives with the definitive condemnation of Alberto Stasi.
But no. The file is continually reopened, rewritten, relaunched. Like an endless TV series, with the actors who can no longer leave the scene. In any case, there are certainly some clues against Andrea Sempio, it’s not all fantasy or all “obstinacy”, as he says. Obviously, it is advisable to wait prudently until December 18th, the date on which the hearing is scheduled which will close the evidentiary matter against the suspect. In the meantime, let’s see what the evidence is against him.
The clues about Sempio
In addition to DNA, investigators propose other elements already known – but now revisited with greater weight. There is thefootprint 33 found on the wall of the stairs of the house in Garlasco, attributed to Sempio’s right palm thanks to the correspondence of 15 “fingerprint minutiae”. Although she was not admitted to the evidentiary hearing, for the Prosecutor’s Office it remains a strong clue.
Then there are the three telephone calls made by the suspect to the Poggi home in the days preceding the crime, when the victim was alone. Calls which – according to the prosecution – demonstrate a suspicious interest on the part of Sempio, who however declared that he was unaware of the exact date of his friend’s return on holiday, thus justifying those rings with an innocent request.
In the end, the receipt dated 13 August 2007 for a car park in Vigevano: handed over to the investigators only a year later, as if to build an alibi. But a witness – who presented himself spontaneously – claims that it does not belong to Sempio, fueling doubts around this element.
The alleged motive
As reported by Corriere della Sera, the Pavia Prosecutor’s Officeled by Fabius Napoleonbelieves that all these elements together constitute a solid basis for moving towards a trial. There is talk of an alleged motive that it would be reconstructed — a detail that, if confirmed, could radically change the perspective on the entire affair.
Interviewed by Bruno Vespa at Cinque Minuti, Sempio had given free rein to his feelings: «There is a certain fury, I hope in good faith. I don’t have a life at the moment. I’m back in the little room I once stayed in, locked in there, I can’t do anything. It’s like being under house arrestthe”. Investigated for murder in collaboration with Alberto Stasi, Chiara Poggi’s boyfriend and the only one definitively convicted for the crime, Andrea Sempio has therefore reiterated his innocence for the umpteenth time.
However, a complete reconstruction is needed, a process that demonstrates that Stasi was innocent and Sempio guilty, or both guilty. Or both innocent and someone else still guilty. In short, apart from all these possible combinations, until this trial takes place, the Garlasco case will remain one of the biggest black holes in Italian justice: a crime with a definitively convicted man and a new suspect, without either of them being definitively exonerated or framed.
