Two IT reports, two opposite truths. The Garlasco case returns to Chiara and Alberto Stasi’s computers
Ten minutes. It is the time in which Alberto Stasi went out to walk the dog, on the evening of 12 August 2007, leaving Chiara Poggi alone in front of the computer. What the victim did and saw in that interval is now at the center of an investigation battle between experts which, instead of providing clarity (as would at least be desirable), seem to multiply the versions of the facts, and therefore complicate everything further.
What happened in Garlasco that evening
According to the IT consultants appointed by the Poggi family, in those ten minutes Chiara would have opened a folder on her boyfriend’s PCcalled “military”, which actually contained intimate photos of naked women. The victim was working on Stasi’s thesis, but at a certain point he would have browsed through those files, focusing on an image portraying a woman from behind, with her jeans lowered and her thong visible. A detail which, according to this reconstruction, could have triggered an argument the following morning, that of the crime.
Stasi experts, however, reject this reading. Their analysis of the PCs leads to radically opposite conclusions: Chiara would never have seen those photos. Two biased reports, two irreconcilable truths. It will be another expert opinion, this time third and independent, which will establish the (hopefully) most correct and reliable version.
The possible revision of the process
In the meantime, the case is rekindled by Massimo Lovati, former lawyer of Andrea Sempio, the only person under investigation for complicity in murder. Speaking at Morning 5Lovati claimed that the uncertainty about the time of death supports the alibis of both suspectsSempius and Stasi. “I think the text will be offered to Alberto Stasi’s defense to obtain a review of the trial,” he declared, defining the sentence as “deeply unjust.”
A position that adds a further layer of complexity to a case which, almost twenty years after the crime, has not yet found a universal, shareable truth. The Truth, with a capital T. No, there are still too many dark points. The next IT assessment could be yet another decisive turning point. Or yet another starting point for new inconclusive disputes.
