Andrea Sempio speaks to «Lo Stato delle Cose»: the fear of conviction, the receipt, the seized diaries and the relationship with Marco Poggi
The investigations continue, delving ever deeper into the Garlasco labyrinth. Andrea Sempio doesn’t hide. He knows he risks prosecution. He knows he risks prison. And he decides to confide in front of the cameras of «Lo Stato delle Cose»: «If we go to trial, of course there is also the risk of a conviction. And this obviously worries me, it scares me.”
The only suspect in the new investigation into the murder of Chiara Poggi, killed in Garlasco on 13 August 2007, has given an interview in which he addresses the most delicate issues of the case one by one. With a premise that acts as a common thread: «It is a very serious accusation. I hope that this is the last time that everything is clarified and that’s it.”
The shadows over Garlasco
Among the most discussed points of the investigation is undoubtedly the receipt that Sempio would have given to the investigators as evidence of his movements on the day of the crime. His reconstruction is detailed. He says he was summoned, that he mentioned the receipt during the report and that he went home to retrieve it on the instructions of the investigators themselves. “They take it, photocopy it and off they go,” he explains. To the objection that none of this appears in the report, he responds by citing a significant detail: during that hearing he was ill, so much so that an ambulance was called.
His personal diaries and notebooks were also seized during the searches. Sempio does not deny the content, but contextualizes it: “They certainly saw the part of me where you are disappointed about something, where you are suffering.” A partial image, he claims, of a person caught in particularly difficult moments.
Stasis and expertise of Cattaneo
The comparison with Alberto Stasi, definitively sentenced to 16 years for the same murder and still detained, is inevitable. Sempio does not question the sentence, but with a significant clarification: «Not because I think that sentence is perfect, but precisely because I have not read it and am not able to comment on it. To date, in fact, I have not seen anything that would make me deny it.”
And he adds a reflection that almost sounds like reasoning aloud about his own future: if Stasi spent ten years in prison and the doubts raised by his lawyers led to the reopening of the investigation, then he too, in the event of conviction, hopes that everything can be “reopened and clarified”.
On the expert opinion by Professor Cristina Cattaneothe results of which are still classified, Sempio says he is waiting like everyone else. «I didn’t commit the murder. It can come out outside whatever time it is, I don’t care.”
The relationship with Marco Poggi
There is one detail in the interview that is more striking than the others. A curious detail. Sempio says he is still in contact with Marco Poggi, Chiara’s brotherone of his best friends at the time of the crime. Not in person, but on the phone, every now and then. «This thing weighs on me as a protagonist, but obviously it also weighs heavily on him and his family».
A sentence that tells a lot, in a few words, about the complexity of this story, even on a personal and human level. In the meantime, we dig deep into the Garlasco labyrinth. Trying to find out if, at the center of it, we can find the Minotaur that killed Chiara.
