Adnkronos Milan, May 17 (Adnkronos) – The Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office is tightening the noose around Andrea Sempio, investigated for the murder (in complicity) of Chiara Poggi, killed in Garlasco on August 13, 2007. The decision to question him on Tuesday, May 20, seems to reveal the intention to quickly close a case that already has a certain culprit: Alberto Stasi, the victim's then boyfriend, was definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison, a sentence he has almost finished serving.
The summons, however you read it, will put the suspect in front of the documents collected by the public prosecutors Stefano Civardi, Valentina De Stefano and Giuliana Rizza for the first time, and there are those who are betting that some aces will be pulled out of the sleeve by a prosecutor's office, led by Fabio Napoleone, who did not give up in the face of the initial noes from the investigating judge's office to reopening the case against Sempio, whose position was already archived eight years ago by other magistrates from Pavia.
The suspect, accompanied by his lawyers Angela Taccia and Massimo Lovati, has the right not to answer or make spontaneous statements, but for now he too is not revealing his moves. "I don't want to anticipate anything about the defense strategy," Lovati tells Adnkronos. The smoke and mirrors of the latest classic investigation activities - the searches for notes and computer material or the hunt for the murder weapon in the Tromello canal, both of which began last Wednesday - will not be the elements on which the public prosecutors are betting.
The computer results - today Sempio's cell phone was returned - will take time, while the old essay on the murder of Chiara Poggi, written in 2013 as evidence in a journalism course, revealed by Sempio himself to the Carabinieri who knocked on his door in Voghera, seems more suggestive than worrying. And the discovery of the possible weapon that had been stranded for years on the muddy bottom of the canal does not seem to provide quick certainties. A comparison between the possible objects fished out with photos of the victim's wounds and specific tests to understand how many years those instruments have been in the water will probably be needed to get answers.
More likely, against Sempio, they will return to press to have him explain why his DNA is on Chiara Poggi's fingernails - this is the belief of the Prosecutor's Office, which has relied on geneticist Carlo Previderé. A match that has already been discarded because it is considered unusable in the Stasi trials and in the archiving of Sempio. The then twenty-year-old frequented the Poggi house and the presence of his genetic material is not suspicious. The prosecutors will try to insist on the times of the morning of August 13, 2007, on the alibi provided by the receipt for a parking lot in Vigevano delivered a year after Chiara's death, on the three calls lasting a few seconds to the Poggi house a few days before the murder. And perhaps Sempio will be asked about his mother's illness when the Milan Carabinieri gave her the name of a former firefighter.
Tuesday's summons to the prosecutor's office is also investigative and media pressure. In two months, Sempio has been summoned to the barracks four times (for collection or bureaucratic activities), twice in the last three days, only in one case were journalists not outside waiting for him. A breath on the neck that will continue for a long time if we take into account that operations on the evidence will only begin on June 17 and that for the evidentiary incident the court will return on October 24.