The former Carabinieri commander is under investigation for perjury. A never mentioned black bike also appears. The case gets complicated again
The Garlasco crime never ceases to reserve surprises. The latest concerns Gennaro Cassese, theformer commander of the Carabinieri who was the first to enter the Poggi house after the murder and conducted the very first interrogations, that of Alberto Stasi and Andrea Sempio. The news is that Cassese is now under investigation for perjury.
At the center of the provision is the 2008 report relating to the interrogation of Sempio, who was a friend of the victim’s brother at the time. On that occasion, Sempio handed over the Vigevano parking receipt as an alibi. But according to the prosecution, that report had significant gaps. Cassese’s “I don’t remember” too many details would therefore have convinced the prosecutors to include him in the register of suspects.
Sempio’s illness disappeared from the report
One episode, in particular, weighed on the Prosecutor’s decision. During that interrogation, in fact, Sempio felt ill, to the point of risking fainting. And it was necessary to call 118. There are even records. Yet, in the official minutes of that hearing there is no trace of what happened. And about this too, Cassese claimed not to remember.
The defense of the former commander, in any case, was not long in coming. His lawyer, Valter Biscotti, defined the behavior of the Prosecutor’s Office as “a bit anomalous”, speaking of an investigation that was “already quite weak in itself” and adding that he did not recognize “the legal prerequisites for challenging this crime”. THE’Stasi’s defense lawyer, Antonio De Rensisjoked about the fact that Cassese on the contrary remembers precisely the details concerning his client, such as the meeting in the cemetery between Marco Poggi and Stasi, in which Chiara Poggi’s brother would have asked Alberto for a copy of the video with the two of them “clean of the private parts”, to preserve a memory of his sister. Stasi allegedly replied that “it was not possible”.
Garlasco’s black bike never verbalized
On the front of Sempio’s defense, his lawyers Angela Taccia and Liborio Cataliotti instead focus the spotlight on back of the house. Taccia announced an inspection among the brambles and fields surrounding the house, convinced that that area may contain clues that had escaped the original investigations.
The prosecutors hypothesize that Sempio, after the crime, may have fled through those fields to reach the grandmother’s house, about 500 meters away from Chiara’s. And precisely in that area, a witness had found a black bike, hidden in the undergrowth near the intersection of via Toledo and via Pascoli. But the most disturbing and suspicious detail is another: that discovery was never officially recorded.
