For Bocellari, the new vein of the Brescia prosecutor’s office is “one of the worst accusations that can be moved to a magistrate”. In the meantime, the DNA under Chiara’s nails “is valid”
A few days after the disconcerting innovations related to the searches that on Friday brought to light the investigation of the Brescia prosecutor who sees the former Pavia prosecutor investigated for corruption in judicial documents Mario Vendittiwho eight years ago asked for the storage of Andrea Sempliothe lawyer Giada Bocellaridefender of Alberto Stasi For eleven years, he has expressed all the frustration of his client in an interview with Corriere.
Stasi’s reaction to the investigation into Venditti
Stasi, sentenced to 16 for the murder of Chiara Poggi, would have chosen to remain distant from the chronicles, limiting itself to “learning the indispensable” while justice continues to investigate the case of Garlasco.
Bocellari does not hide the gravity of the accusation: “In compliance with the presumption of innocence, it is an accusatory hypothesis that, if anything, should come to something more certain, obviously it would be very serious”.
The lawyer underlines how the one against Venditti is “one of the worst accusations that can be moved to a magistrate”, referring to the alleged corruption that would have led to the archive of Andrea Sempio in 2017.
Of course, the possible confirmation of the accusatory hypothesis against Venditti would influence both the Pavese procedure against Semve and the possible revision of the Stasi process. “You will no longer be able to say for Semve that there was an archive,” he explained. Furthermore, according to the defense, “it would also be a serious clue against Andrea: it is common opinion to think that if a person is innocent he has no reason to put in place certain conduct”.
As for the request for revision for Stasi, Bocellari has specified that it is “still early” and that it will be “more appropriate to wait for the closure of the investigations, because this will allow us to evaluate all the elements that the current prosecutor has collected”.
The Venditti case
The investigation of the Brescia Prosecutor’s Office originates from financial movements abnormal in the semium family. Between December 2016 and June 2017, Andrea’s paternal aunts issued checks for 43,000 euros in favor of his father Giuseppe, while in the same period the family carried out cash for 35,000 euros “completely incongruous compared to their ordinary bank movements”.
The fulcrum of the accusation is based on a note found in the home of the parents of Semve: “Venditti Gip archives x € 20.30”. According to the Brescia magistrates, those numbers would indicate a figure between 20 and 30 thousand euros intended for the former prosecutor to encourage the storage of the case. The Semplio family tried to justify precisely as a reference to “legal expenses” or “money for stamp duty”, but the perplexities of the investigators remain.
Even more disturbing are the interceptions that have disappeared from the Brogliacci of 2017. According to the Brescia prosecutor, some crucial phrases of Giuseppe Seveio were never transcribed, including the reference to the need to “pay those gentlemen” with unparalleled methods. Other interceptions They suggested that father and son were already aware of the questions that would be asked during the interrogation: “If you put on you some questions that don’t … you say you don’t remember”.
The turning point of DNA: finally usable
While the Venditti case broke out, a news came that could definitively change the fate of the trial: the DNA found under the nails of Chiara Poggi was usable for the comparisons. The announcement came from the geneticist Marzio Capra, historical consultant of the Poggi family, who said: “For this analysis on the DNA of the nail margins we will have to carry out all any comparisons”.
This decision represents a significant turning point. For years those genetic traces had been considered not attributable to anyone. In 2014, during the appeal trial against Stasi, the geneticist Francesco Di Stefano concluded that there was no “positive identity indication”.
In 2017, the same expert had hypothesized that the DNA derived from the “contact between the victim’s hands and objects on which he had been deposited”. Two different conclusions that had fueled doubts about the reliability of those tracks.
Now the geneticist Denise Albani of the University of Rome Tor Vergata will have to analyze the original “raw data” extracted from the Ris of Parma. The results are expected for December 18, when the report that could represent the “Queen Test” in a possible process against the semium will be deposited. As Capra specified, it will be “a probabilistic assessment of the weight of the supposed evidence with respect to the accusatory hypothesis in terms of verisimilitude”.
