Murder Chiara Poggi, Andrea Semplio’s lawyer: “For me Alberto Stasi is innocent, he was a hit man”

“For me Alberto Stasi is innocent, like Andrea Semplio. I would not like the errors in the investigations to be repeated ». With these words, the lawyer Massimo Lovati, a lawyer by Andrea Semplio, intervenes in the debate still open on the murder of Chiara Poggi, killed in Garlasco on 13 August 2007 in the family house. Almost twenty years later and with a new investigation in progress, The semium defender openly takes a position in favor of the only sentenced for murder (Today in semi -freedom after the final sentence at 16 years), considering it a victim of a judicial error: “Stasi for me is innocent, it was a cing that killed Chiara Poggi.”

Lovati, guest of Italian stories On Rai1, he explained that he had been accruing this belief for some time, well before taking on the defense of the new suspect. “I am a defender of Andrea Semplio Since 2016, I was also alive in 2007 and Like all citizens and professionals, I have always had my opinions I express in this circumstance: I have always thought that stasis is innocent, “he said live. A position contrary to that of the Poggi family, convinced of Chiara’s ex -boyfriend’s guilt.

The lawyer says he is worried that the investigative deficiencies that, according to him, have marked the original investigations, can repeat themselves even now: «I would not like the same errors as the investigations of that time to be repeated by today’s investigation against my client. They are both innocent ».

Lovati criticized the first phases of the investigation on Stasi, starting from a specific element. «The relevant question is only one: Alberto Stasi’s story was not verifiedheard testimonial information for twenty days before being drawn from a guarantee notice, “he said. Stasi would have said that he had telephoned Chiara that morning without getting an answer, that he had become suspicious and therefore to have gone home Poggi. «He would have played the bell, nobody opened his door and climbed the railing and entered. After entering, he discovered not the corpse, but a person who perhaps was still alive, came out and made that phone call that does not make sense to the carabinieri ».

For Lovati, it was essential to test the young man’s statements directly. “Why didn’t he do a judicial experiment? He took it in the afternoon to the house of Garlasco and wondered: “Where did you climb over?” And there you saw whether there were footprints or not, “he said. «At that point it could be understood if he said a truth or a lie, and it is very important. The lie is not synonymous with guilt, but other more reliable slopes could be opened from a lie».

Another crucial detail, according to the lawyer, concerns the conditions of Stasi’s shoes. “Stasi had clean shoes and means, with a linear thought, that he did not enter»He explained. «It does not mean that he went, he killed, he returned to his house, he turned on the computer and threw away shoes and crime weapon. They are Arzigogolati thoughts, it is not a clear and linear thought. Why did you have clean shoes? Because you’ve never entered. He reported something that made him report ».

Finally, Lovati also wanted to offer his personal reading of the facts, pushing himself to hypothesize the presence of a third subject in the crime scene. “I have always said it: it was a hired assassin that killed Chiara Poggi, and I repeat it,” he said. “I don’t speak as a lawyer but as a criminologist or as a normal citizen who has his own idea.”