Milan, November 19 (Adnkronos) – “Maybe I dream of being forgotten, trying to return to normalcy, but we’ll see how likely it is. As long as it’s giving advice or slinging mud, the media machine is very busy… If it weren’t for the media attacks, I wouldn’t be afraid, I wouldn’t be embarrassed to walk around. Looking at me is a burden, but I have nothing to hide.” Andrea Sempio, who is being investigated for the murder of Chiara Poggi, is once again the target of accusations. After the double filing, he returned to the spotlight for several months but his version did not change.
The elements against him, which were first heard immediately after the crime (like all the friends of the victim’s brother), then in 2008 when he handed over Vigevano’s car parking receipt, have been the same since 2017 when the defense investigation of Alberto Stasi, the boyfriend of the then twenty-six-year-old man sentenced to 16 years in prison for the crime, focused on him. “What surprised me was that I wasn’t the only one carrying something” when he was overheard by police. “Some brought other receipts, some brought passports, some brought work stamps, some brought ATM transactions,” he explained – a guest of ‘Porta a Porta’, a Rai1 television show – recalling that he kept the coupons considering the attention surrounding the murder. In three phone calls made a week earlier to Poggi’s home phone, the 38-year-old man explained them one by one. What lasted two seconds was a mistake, the second – unable to contact Marco while on holiday with his parents in Trentino – he called “to find out if he was there and I was told no. I tried to contact Marco again and I couldn’t, and the next day I consciously called Poggi’s house and asked when he would be back. From then on I didn’t call again. What I did, Giuseppe Poggi’s friend did too”.
And apart from proving that the incident is still ongoing – no footprints were found in the villa on Via Pascoli that could be traced to the suspect – a new element of the investigation was the discovery of 33 footprints on the right wall of the stairs where the victim’s body was thrown. A bloodless trail linked by Pavia prosecutors to Sempio. “I had a lot of doubts whether it could be linked to me. We had it checked several times (by consultants, Ed.) and I had my doubts. Even if it wasn’t blood marks, but could just be footprints on the wall, it wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t go to the basement often but I think I went there 3-4 times” he recalled. For Sempio, who continued to declare himself a foreigner, Chiara Poggi’s crime, in terms of its modality, was “a crime of passion, a crime of impulse”, while for the Stasi – whom the Court of Cassation indicated as the sole murderer of the young woman – “the whole affair was tried by someone more competent than me”.
