18 years after the murder of Chiara Poggi, the investigations stretch: new analyzes on DNA and footprints reopen the case and feed old doubts
Eighteen years after the crime of Garlasco, the investigation that shocked Italian public opinion seems destined to continue. The Pavia Prosecutor’s Office is ready to ask for the extension of the evidentiary accident – the preliminary investigation phase in which evidence intended to be used in a future process are collected – as part of the reopening of the case on the murder of Chiara Poggi.
The knot is technical but decisive: the time provided by the law, 90 days from the start that took place on June 17, is not enough to complete the analysis of the DNA track found under the victim’s nails. The so -called “raw data” are needed to establish whether that genetic material can be analyzed and, above all, if it can be attributed to Andrea Semplio, friend of Chiara’s brother and today the only investigated. At the moment only the results developed by the RIS of Parma were transmitted, an insufficient step to close the examination within the scheduled times.
The new analyzes on the finds
On Wednesday, in the offices of the Milan Police Headquarters, a new passage of the investigation is set: the expert appointed by the Court, Domenico Marches, has convened consultants of the Prosecutor’s Office, the defenses and the Poggi family for an operation for the search for latent imprints – those invisible to the naked eye – on finds seized 18 years ago in the house in via Pascoli.
Attention focuses on apparently trivial objects, but which could keep decisive clues: the Brick of Estathè with the straw, a pack of biscuits, a bag of cereals and the dustbin bag with the remains of breakfast. Just on that straw, in the past, Alberto Stasi’s DNA had already been detected, Chiara’s ex -boyfriend, definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2015.
The computer alibi and the bathroom of the house
In parallel, in the last few hours the spotlights on details remained in the shade have rekindled. During the television broadcast Quarta Repubblica two elements underlined by the defense of Stasi were made public.
The first concerns the so -called “computer alibi”: according to the lawyer Antonio De Rensis, Stasi would have worked on his degree thesis that morning, engaged in an “intellectually significant” activity that would make his presence on the crime scene incompatible.
The second element brings inside the bathroom of the house: there, in addition to a bloody imprint on the mat in front of the mirror, an imprint of stasis on the dispenser was found, without blood and without traces in the siphon. A detail that, according to the defense, could be compatible with a use that took place the previous evening, after a dinner at home Poggi. To strengthen this hypothesis, the observation that the sink presented hair and dirt, a sign that it had not been washed recently.
Doubts, guarantees and slopes still open
For De Rinesis, the “reasonable doubt” remains a guarantee that should prevent you from condemning an innocent. “Stasi has been in prison for ten years – he recalled – but the crime weapon has never been found”.
The impression is that the Pavia prosecutor does not intend to leave anything unexplored. Each technical element, every trace remained in the finds, every detail of the crime scene is reviewed with the aim of definitively reconstructing what happened that morning in August. And the extension of the evidentiary accident now appears as an inevitable passage.
