"In the evening when I go to bed I have nothing to reproach myself" .

Alberto Stasi said this in an interview with Le Iene, from the Milanese prison of Bollate where he is serving a sixteen-year sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Chiara Poggi , killed at the age of 26, on August 13, 2007, in her villa in Garlasco, in the province of Pavia.

"When they ask me if I killed Chiara, I think they don't know what they're talking about ", Stasi says. Adding: "In the common imagination an innocent person in prison is someone who suffers to the nth degree. For me he is not, simply because my conscience is light . In the evening when I go to bed I have nothing to reproach myself with . Of course, you feel deprived of a part of life because taking away freedom from an innocent person is violence, but you have nothing to reproach yourself with. you just suffered, it's not your fault. "

Stasi also spoke about his legal case: "It seemed like rowing against a river in flood going against the current, from the beginning - he says -: once the exchange of the pedals, another time the presumptive test, and the alibi that I get canceled, the time of death being postponed. There was no desire to seek the truth. "

"I was acquitted in the first instance, I was acquitted on appeal, on the single sentence the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation clearly said 'You cannot convict Alberto Stasi', therefore, in Italy they have a system that works today like this: the prosecution says 'No, this person must be acquitted' but, despite this, the person is condemned ".

Finally, on the day of his first arrest followed by his release, after 4 days: “It was like a point of no return : it was no longer a question of carrying out an investigation but it was a question of saving one's career, one's reputation. This then led to a whole series of consequences of trifles, of inability to go back, if you know what I mean. To admit your mistakes you need to have courage "concludes Stasi.

The conviction against him came after a long series of trials . Initially acquitted in first instance and on appeal, the Supreme Court annulled the sentence and then in a new appeal process he was sentenced to 16 years (with the discount for the shortened procedure), a decision finally confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2015, which also rejected the request to reopen the process .

(Unioneonline / lf)

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