Lawyer Boccellari: at least three subjects at the crime scene. And the encrypted message from Bertani, Sempio’s suicidal friend: “There was a girl there who knew”
During the murder of Chiara Poggi, there would have been two other people in the house in Garlasco in addition to Andrea Sempio. It is the thesis that Alberto Stasi’s lawyer, Giada Boccellariexhibits at Corriere della Sera. A reconstruction which, if confirmed, would radically change the picture of the crime: “The murder takes place in three phases and, at least in the first phases, the presence of other subjects cannot be ruled out.”
Stasi’s defense claims that the leads on Satanism, pedophilia and the Madonna della Bozzola do not appear to have been found at the moment. The real motive, according to Boccellari, “will only be understood after it is ascertained who was at the crime scene.” Already in 2007 the defense consultant had spoken of two people. Now the hypothesis expands to three.
Meanwhile, Stasi, definitively condemned, «lives in a sort of soap bubble. We inform him in broad terms, but then he tends not to read the newspapers or watch TV. I think it’s a defense mechanism,” says the lawyer.
Bertani, Sempio’s suicidal friend
A particularly disturbing new piece is also added to the puzzle. According to the weekly magazine Gente, the sentence posted on Facebook by Michele Bertani, a friend of Sempio who committed suicide mysteriously, contained a hidden message. Two weeks after Stasi’s final condemnation, Bertani had published the verse of a Club Dogo songwhich we would like to report: «The truth lies in the things that no one knows!!! No one will ever tell you the truth.”
By eliminating the capital letters, the remaining lowercase letters would form, once transmuted into the Hebrew alphabet, the sentence: «There was a girl there who knew». Bertani had chosen “Mem He Shin” as his nickname, which in Jewish mysticism recalls the Fifth Name of God. A detail that would add symbolic depth to an already very enigmatic message. Now, we are far from being conspiracy theorists. But since everything counts in Garlasco’s crime, any detail could represent decisive evidence, it is better not to omit anything. Also because Bertani’s suicide is particularly distressing, and undoubtedly represents one of the darkest points of the case.
The riddle of the black car
And then there’s the car. In 2007 Bertani had at his disposal a black Golf registered in 2004. Similar to the one that a witness, Marco Muschitta, said he saw parked near the Poggi house on the morning of the crime. «When I entered via Pascoli I saw a car parked on the left, dark in colour, in a small clearing. It was parallel to the road, its nose facing Via Pavia. I didn’t see any people,” he declared on the record.
Muschitta recanted everything the same day and for years there was erroneous talk of an SUV. But perhaps it was Bertani’s Golf, immortalized in a photo. A detail that was considered unreliable at the time and which has now come to light again. As previously mentioned, in Garlasco everything counts. Everything must be taken into consideration, something that had not been done over the years, during those unfortunate investigations which, error after error, omission after omission, led to today. And today, the truth still remains shrouded in mystery.
