Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – "There was no conspiracy against Andrea Sempio." Brothers and lawyers Fabio and Enrico Giarda, Alberto Stasi's former defense attorneys, are convinced of this in the defamation trial against Massimo Lovati, the thirty-eight-year-old former store clerk's former lawyer. In court, they reconstructed the stages that led to the new suspect being pointed at in the murder of Chiara Poggi, after the Supreme Court, in December 2015, recognized Stasi as the culprit of the August 13, 2007, crime.
At the heart of the debate are the statements deemed defamatory by Lovati made on March 13, 2025, in front of the cameras, when the new investigation into the murder of 19 years ago had just exploded.
"We learned of the defamatory statements from several journalists who called us asking for explanations. These statements were made before numerous newspapers and television stations by Lovati, who is no stranger to such statements: they are a trademark of his. We already reported him in 2017 when he also spoke of a plot against Sempio, or of DNA manipulation," the genetic trace at the heart of the new investigation into Sempio, explains Fabio Giarda.
The DNA emerged from the defense investigations entrusted to the investigative firm Skp, partisan investigations that also involved "Sempio's friends and an unknown man who showed up at the Stasi family's car dealership claiming to know who the killer is."
And if Fabio Giarda appears skeptical about the 2017 filing of the case against the current suspect, it is above all the data that he insists on.
"The defamation has affected our professional life, but also our personal life. These accusations bring into play the figure of our father, who died in 2021. Bringing up the idea of a conspiracy, supporting the idea of our illegal activity, is something we could not ignore, and we are also here to restore our father's image," concludes Fabio Giarda, who has no longer been Alberto Stasi's lawyer since 2019.
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