Crime of Garlasco, Angela Taccia: “If Andrea Semplio killed Chiara Poggi, I stop being a lawyer and I retire to the mountains”

Angela Taccia, lawyer and best friend of Andrea Sempliohas no doubts: “If he killed Chiara, I stop being a lawyer And I retire to the mountains ».

She knows well the story of that group of friends who attended the house of Garlasco at the time of the murder of Chiara Poggi, which took place August 13, 2007. “Those guys were a second family for me», He tells in an interview a Today, Remembering the first meeting with them: «Halloween of 2005, I was 16 years old. I had engaged to Alessandro Biasibetti, a high schoolmate. He took me to Garlasco, to Pub Punto Zero, and said to me: “Those are my friends”. They were all at the table, Andrea Semplio, Marco Poggi, Mattia Capra, Roberto Freddi. I started passing the Saturdays with them, between a dinner and a beer at the zero point. I said on TV that we were “bad luck” because we didn’t leave alcohol like the others And we went to the disco at most once a month ».

Angela Taccia had grown up in a very different environment from that of her friends: «At my house they made everyone the Catholic University, they raised me to classical dance, piano, holidays in Stresa and golf club, between people who had castles in Scotland. Even the most “normal” tried to give themselves a tone. Those guys from Garlasco, on the other hand, were different, genuine, direct, straightforwardthey didn’t need to pretend to be what they were not and did not matter anything to judge others ».

With Andrea Semplio, friendship has slowly consolidated: “He called me “The sofa stray”, it took three years to become my friend. One day I told him: “I fell the world, I will become your best friend and you will thank God for this”. He didn’t seem happy to the idea. “

Chiara Poggi, tells the lawyer Angela Taccia, rarely saw her: «Every now and then they came out to open us. “Hi, is there Marco?” “Yes, it arrives.” That’s all. “

On August 13, 2007, the day of the crime was in Stresa: “Biasi, who was in Trentino with Marco, called me:” A terrible thing happened, perhaps a tragedy, we have to return to Garlasco immediately, Marco’s sister is very bad, we do not understand whether it is dead or not, perhaps it has fallen from the stairs, perhaps a robbery, we are all in panic “”. The tragedy “joined us even more. With Biasi we went to take Marco at the grandmother’s house, he made a lot of tenderness, you wanted to protect him ».

From Andrea Semplio, Angela Taccia recalls the kind gestures: «It was particularwith long hair, the shirts of the metal groups and the amphibians. But despite the a little hard appearance, he came out of the premises asking for “permission” and “sorry”he gave way to the elderly, once he noticed a cricket in difficulty and remained behind to put him on a plant. He even noticed the ants in line and told us not to trample them. He read, listened to Tom Waits. It was a little grumpy but, as he mumbled, he helped others ».

The friendship between them was born in a complex period: “Between 2009 and 2010 I spent a very difficult family moment and disappeared for a while. He wrote to me: “How come I no longer break my boxes? Is something wrong? “No one else had noticed it. He helped me in every way:” Read this book “,” Listen to this song “,” write a list of things you would like to do “,” Why don’t you do a sport to relax a little? “. He advised me because he had read something. I still practice it today”.

The lawyer categorically excludes that the friend can be guilty, and excludes that he can have a “second life”: “I can grasp the signals, the contradictions, the unmotivated nervousisms, the disappearances, the unprserved justifications … Andrea could not have a double life, nor be a killer. He did not stand violenceeven disturbed himself if someone was not cleared out of the clubs ».

Angela Taccia was criticized (but also threatened) when she introduced themselves to the searches in jeans and sweatshirts and when she wrote on social media “hard struggle without fear” or “cpp i love you”. But the controversy did not stop it: «They called me at five in the morning for the searches, what should I have to wear? The phrase “hard struggle without fear” not only took it from my private profile, but they also invented that I was recalled by the order for posing it. False. I have never received calls. Compared to the letter, the CPP, the code of criminal procedure, taught me Professor Angelo Giarda in person (he was the head of the defense of Stasi for all the processes, editor’s note) to Cattolica: “Remember to go on, not holding the comments of the others”, he said to the exam, “Take the code of criminal procedure like the Bible, she must love him” “.

His commitment to defense of Semplio remains total: “My husband understands what I feel and supports me. Andrea is innocent. And when this story ends, I hope they will all apologize to him ».