The Pavia Prosecutor’s Office entrusts new investigations on Garlasco to a consultant known for Le Iene. Doubts about the relationship between judicial investigation and television story
A controversial appointment, perhaps uncomfortable for some. The Pavia Prosecutor’s Office has given a new assignment to an IT consultant to carry out technical checks on electronic devices linked to the Garlasco case. The decision comes after the request, made by Andrea Sempio’s lawyers, for an evidentiary incident on the computers of Chiara Poggi and Alberto Stasi, with the aim of identifying any useful elements to reconstruct the motive for the murder.
The scenario of Garlasco’s IT expertise
A defense request that the judge for preliminary investigations deemed inadmissible, explaining that the Prosecutor’s Office had already entrusted anonymous technical advice to one of its consultants. The activity must be completed within approximately sixty days. A choice which, in fact, excluded at this stage the possibility for the defense to participate in the cross-examination investigations.
A rain of doubts and discontent accompanied this appointment. On the other hand, the profile of the consultant in charge is that of Paolo Dal Checco, IT expert known for his collaborations with broadcasting The Hyenas. The Italia 1 program itself has significantly contributed, in recent months, to bringing the Garlasco crime back to the center of public attention.
Let’s try to be balanced
And here it is Selvaggia Lucarellijournalist of Daily Factcontests not so much the formal legitimacy of the assignment, but rather the symbolic message that it produces: the risk that the judicial investigation ends up chasing an already constructed television narrativeprecisely from those who in recent months have contributed to reopening the investigation to look where others eighteen years ago had not looked, or at least had pretended not to look. Indeed, according to the most faithful Buddhist tradition, those who carried out the investigations were inspired by the famous Buddhist saying “I don’t see, I don’t hear, I don’t speak.”
Paolo Dal Checco may not be inspired exactly by this proverb, often wise in everyday life but certainly not in a judicial investigation. However, it is wise, in addition to the proverb, to ask ourselves (as Lucarelli did) whether in this case it is the television investigation that seeks justice or justice that chases the television investigation.
