Adnkronos Pavia, May 16 (Adnkronos) – – Marco Panzarasa, Alberto Stasi’s friend who was definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Chiara Poggi, returns – still as an uninvestigated person – in the new investigation into the Garlasco crime. His name is on the list of those who will have to voluntarily provide their DNA to compare it with that found on the nails of the twenty-six-year-old.
The genetic trace of Panzarasa, who just graduated in 2007 and is now a lawyer, will also be compared with any fingerprints that will be found on objects (some found in the garbage of the Poggi house) that have never been analyzed for almost 18 years.
Panzarasa, 42, married, was Stasi's classmate. A friendship that began in the summer of 1997 at the Garlasco oratory and continued at the Mortara scientific high school. He was the friend with whom Alberto Stasi spent a study holiday in London a few weeks before Chiara's death (the twenty-six-year-old joined them for a weekend) and together the two friends returned home on 4 August 2007. It was 11 August 2007 when he received a message in the afternoon from Stasi ('Haldo' in his address book) in which he asked him to bring him the 'souvenir' postcard from London, left in his suitcase. A request that the former Bocconi student repeated a few hours later on the phone. "Alberto only asked me about the postcard, he didn't ask me anything else, or rather I don't remember, the main content of the phone call was the postcard. I told him I couldn't go out because I was at the seaside, and we arranged to meet on Monday evening in Garlasco".
A meeting that will not take place: the murder of Chiara Poggi becomes public knowledge in the late morning when Marco Panzarasa is returning by train from a weekend at the seaside with friends in Borghetto Santo Spirito (Savona). The recent graduate returns to the town in the province of Pavia on Monday 13 August, while his friends will return after Ferragosto. He leaves from the Loano station at 11.40:17, misses the connection in Genoa, and will arrive in Pavia no earlier than XNUMX:XNUMX. He is on the train when he receives a phone call from Stefania Cappa, the victim's cousin and who helps her with a couple of university exams, and learns of the murder of his friend's girlfriend. The train tickets are part of the investigation.
Heard several times on record, in February 2008 Marco Panzarasa's home was seized: the Carabinieri took away various computer equipment, including a computer. An investigative activity that ended in nothing, while speculation and social hatred grew around the young man. On record Panzarasa confessed that in London his friend also showed him some 'intimate' photos of Chiara - a mistake while scrolling through other images - and that Stasi "had downloaded some pornographic videos from the internet that he didn't show me anyway" he said on record. He also recalled - heard in 2014 - of the holiday in England: "I bought an English phone card in London and I seem to remember that Alberto Stasi bought one too. Then after returning I never used it again in Italy".
Relations with Stasi 'cooled' immediately after the media hype that fell on Garlasco. Like all the friends of the victim and Stasi, he was also summoned and questioned by the Carabinieri. "I glimpsed Alberto in the Garlasco barracks but I couldn't speak to him because I was busy with the Carabinieri. The next day I called Alberto's father asking him how his son was feeling. He told me he was resting so I didn't bother him. In the following days I tried in vain to contact Alberto through text messages sent from mine to his cell phone" he says.
"I remember having sent him 3 text messages, one in the days immediately following the fact, a second immediately after the notice of investigation and a third a few days ago before my return from Spain in which I invited him to have a coffee for a chat. I never received a response to all three text messages, nor did Alberto ever call me after 13 August 2007" he wrote in the statement on 30 August 2007. After 18 years his name of Marco Panzarasa, like that of the 'K twins', returns in the Garlasco case.