Andrea Semplio again in the center of the Garlasco case: the 40 thousand euros, the ticket on Venditti and the shadows of the old investigations
Chiara Poggi’s crime in Garlasco, 13 August 2007, has become the paradigm of Italian yellow: processes, sentences, missed revisions, suspended truths. Eighteen years after Alberto Stasi’s definitive sentence, the investigation reopens with a new protagonist: Andrea Sempliochildhood friend of the victim’s brother, now the only investigated in the new vein.
And doubts, contradictions, suspicions come back with him.
The father of Semplio: “No corruption, only lawyers to pay”
Giuseppe Semplio, Andrea’s father, tried to reject suspicions. The 40 thousand euros in cash lived in 2016-2017? “A loan from my sisters to pay the lawyers.” The famous note found at home with the word “Venditti GIP archives x 20.30 euros”? “It was for stamp duty,” he said to Morning five.
And the interceptions, with phrases such as “the prosecutor is on our side” or “must be brought the money on”? For a semium father they were misrepresented: the first would have been an impression of a lawyer, the second a trivial reference to the study of lawyers upstairs. “Venditti is an integral person,” he concluded.
The investigations of 2017: a chapter never closed
The name of Semplio does not appear today from nothing. Already in 2016-2017 he had been investigated: genetic analysis and investigative insights had hypothesized his involvement. Then everything had closed quickly, between shadows and archives. At the time, the track seemed destined to deflate. Today, however, it re -emerges strongly, bringing back to the foreground what was then undergrown.
This is where the knot returns: How much were the investigations on semium really solid? And why, after years, those same cards appear central again?
The Twin Cappa: a mystery in the mystery
The Twin Cappa, a cousin of Chiara Poggi are also inserted in this rebus. Figures always lapped by the mystery, already heard at the time of the murder but never really in the center. One of them would have pronounced the Sibillina phrase: “If I speak I come down”. Words that still resonate as an unreacked threat.
Will they be listened to? Will they play a role in the new vein of investigation? For now they remain in the background, a symbol of all those truths never clarified that weigh like boulders on this case.
Lawyers and consultants: the carousel of the versions
Andrea Semplio’s lawyer, Massimo Lovati, liquidates the suspicions with sarcasm: “Only the Pope and the President of the Republic are missing”. But to make everything more complex was the step back of Luciano Garofanoformer Ris commander, who had agreed to act as a consultant for the semium. A decision then revoked.
For Giampietro Lago, another ex Ris, the reason is simple: «You cannot dress two roles so opposite. Maybe they didn’t agree on fees ».
A detail that adds further confusion: consultants who enter and come out, contested expert reports, defensive strategies that change.
The flaws of justice
The crime of Garlasco has also become a lesson on the times and limits of Italian justice. Stasi remains a definitive condemned, while Semia is an suspect. Two distant worlds that risk overlapping in the media debate.
And here the question is the same that hovers in many other Italian cases, from the massacre of grass to Bossetti up to Meredith Kercher: How many times can we question a procedural truth without wearing confidence in justice itself?
For now, the Garlasco case does not offer definitive answers. Only other doubts. Other names. Other clues. In a mystery that continues to write new pages.
