Adnkronos Milan, October 12 (Adnkronos) – For approximately 40 days, Andrea Sempio, once again under investigation for the conspiracy to murder Chiara Poggi, has been learning from newspapers what evidence is against him, starting with the DNA found on the victim's fingernails, which appears to match his own, according to a defense expert for Alberto Stasi, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the Garlasco murder.
Open sources say that since December 19, 2016, the murder of the twenty-six-year-old has once again been in the news. This is according to lawyer Domenico Aiello, representing former Pavia deputy prosecutor Mario Venditti, who is under investigation for corruption in judicial proceedings because he allegedly helped dismiss Andrea Sempio's case in 2017.
The lawyer also recalls a peculiar press conference, held a few days before Christmas 2016, in the press room of the Palace of Justice in Milan. "It was a well-informed newspaper that reported" the inclusion in the register of suspects, and thus Andrea Sempio discovered that "there was DNA evidence against him and observation, control, and shadowing by a private investigation agency. Day after day, the press provided him with information about the potential contents of the interrogation. Here," the lawyer said, addressing the journalists, "you are masters; you know very well where to get all the information that would later be the subject of his interrogation on February 10, 2017."
The former magistrate's lawyer is also keen to clarify other points: "The nail fragment samples had been destroyed in an examination with the consent of all parties," and the wiretaps ordered by Venditti are a "very effective" activity because they capture "the before and after, when the family members and Andrea himself commented on the interrogation. There is no reason to extend the wiretaps, which by law last 15 days," he explains. "Would you pay the price for a wiretap that is useless to the purposes of justice? We have paid for everything that occurred after the final judgment (i.e., the Stasi Supreme Court ruling). A legitimate private interest, the right to prove a miscarriage of justice, cannot be conveyed through the media; it must find refuge in the appropriate courts of justice," namely the Brescia Court of Appeal for the request for review.