“A little huh, I can’t deny it.” Guest “Five Minutes”, broadcast tonight after Tg1, Andrea Sempio – the man who was investigated several months ago in a new investigation into murder Chiara Poggi on Garlasco – here’s how he responded Bruno Vespa who asked her if she felt wronged.
“It’s something that happens periodically – explains Sempio – you fall back into it, there’s a certain anger there, I hope in good faith. At the moment I don’t have a life, I’m back living in the room I once lived in and at almost 40 years old I’m stuck there, I can’t do anything, it’s like being under house arrest”.
And when asked about the famous piece of paper on which his father wrote, “Sell the investigative judge’s files for 20-30 euros” he answered: “I thought it was just a note about how much it cost to collect the files, for 20-30 euros. Also because, something that was not reported by the media, in my house they found a note where my father had written down all the ‘serious’ expenses, expressed in thousands of euros”.
“What was spent at that time, my father marked it all – emphasized Sempio -. There is another note with all the costs, it has not been published in the newspapers, it has not been given weight but it has been found. It was a note where my father put his attorney and consultant fees.”
And again, speaking of Alberto StasiChiara Poggi’s boyfriend was sentenced to life imprisonment: “I believe that has now been clarified through years of trials and several sentences, so I refer to the content of the sentence: until now the perpetrator is Alberto Stasi and I have no reason to think otherwise.”
Rai 1 guest Sempio said: “Maybe I’m dreaming of oblivion, of trying to return to normalcybut we’ll see how likely it is. When it comes to giving advice or throwing 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. It’s a burden to watch over me, but I have nothing to hide behind.”
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 amazes me is that I wasn’t the only one who brought something“When the police heard it, some were bringing other receipts, some were carrying passports, some were carrying work stamps, some were carrying ATM transactions,” explained Sempio in the TV interview.
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 doubt a lot that it’s because of me. We’ve checked it several times (by consultants, ed) and I doubt it. Even if it wasn’t a trace of blood, but just a footprint on the wall, it wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t go to wineries often but I think I was 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”. As for the Stasi, whom the Court of Cassation indicated as the sole murderer of the young woman, “the whole affair was tried by people more competent than me”.
