Tizzoni: "There is no room for revisiting the conviction, and you can't simply remove what you don't like or what doesn't fit, just like the black bicycle."
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"The expert opinions do not reveal any elements that could contradict the final conviction against Stasi. I don't see any room for a review, neither from the legal medical opinion of Dr. Cattaneo, nor from the IT expert Dal Checco's opinion, nor from the RIS (Forensic Investigation Unit) opinions regarding the BPA (bloodstain pattern analysis)." This is the clear opinion of lawyer Gian Luigi Tizzoni, legal representative of the Poggi family, regarding the reading of the investigation documents on the Garlasco case, which were filed recently with the closure of the investigation into Andrea Sempio.
Tizzoni complains that his request to analyze fingerprint 33 in a contradictory hearing between the parties was not granted, one of the elements valued by the prosecution as belonging to Andrea Sempio: "The only issue that remains, and I regret that it remains to be explored, is fingerprint 33," he states. "I had requested that it be submitted in a preliminary hearing and verified by an independent expert. At that time, the fingerprint analysis was already underway, and it would have been efficient in terms of time and cost. Our fingerprint expert, and I read in the documents, also other experts, have strong doubts that fingerprint 33 has the number of minutiae required to be attributed to Sempio, rather than someone else."
Regarding the Garlasco murder, a video shows a 3D reconstruction with an avatar of Andrea Sempio.
Tizzoni recalls some of the elements he believes are irrefutable in the 16-year sentence for Alberto Stasi. "The key points of Stasi's conviction were bypassed: the famous walk is dismissed in a single page, and it is not even addressed by the RIS in Cagliari or by the other experts who were supposed to compare it with the Testi-Bitelli-Vitturari expert analysis, which was a geomatics analysis and was not even considered. It is objectively strange, and I cannot understand how the black bicycle disappeared from the scene. I understand if the Moscova police station had identified, let's say jokingly, a postman, a baker, a friend, anyone, who owned that bicycle to remove it from the scene. But that bicycle is there in the documents, always. Even the judge Vitelli, who acquitted Stasi, considered it very important as the killer's bicycle. It is impossible to imagine a review by removing what doesn't fit and doesn't make sense, but without explaining it as new elements."
However, there is also a response regarding the wiretaps and the "unavailability" of the Poggi family: Tizzoni responds to the Pavia Prosecutor's Office, which stated that Chiara Poggi's parents and brother had shown "hostility" towards the investigation into Sempio. "The Poggi family's home has always been made available, and perhaps on that occasion, they even installed the famous listening devices of which we were aware. The collaboration has always been maximum and dutiful. Let's just say that today they are particularly disappointed and demoralized to see how this investigation has unfolded, and that it has not proven Stasi's innocence. There is a framework that involves numerous subjects, which is frightening and very serious, and which has strongly affected Stasi's right to prove his innocence first. This framework will be the subject of a separate evaluation." The defense is surprised by the number of meetings and conversations with the defendant's defense team, which were very frequent. In summary, "the idea that Sempio is not involved is even more reinforced, and the idea that there is no room for a review is also reinforced. A review must be based not only on new elements but also on elements that undermine the accusatory framework that has been upheld in court. Many of the elements have been bypassed. I can understand if someone wants to propose a request, but there are no new elements."
Defense of Stasi: "Conviction Disintegrated, Numerous New Proofs of Innocence"
The Pavia Prosecutor's Office, "through an extensive and detailed investigative activity, has literally disintegrated the conviction of Alberto Stasi, highlighting a very long series of new pieces of evidence that demonstrate his absolute innocence." This is stated by lawyers Giada Bocellari and Antonio De Rensis, who also explain that a "framework" has emerged that "involves numerous subjects," which is "frightening and very serious, and which has strongly affected, among other things, Stasi's right to prove his innocence first." This framework will be "subject to separate evaluation." The defense is now working "to accelerate the times of the review."
"The defense," the lawyers conclude, "is now working to accelerate the times of the review, in light of what has emerged and the evidence highlighted in support of the Public Prosecutor's Office."