Where was Marco Poggi's Playstation? A seemingly insignificant detail, but very important in the new investigations into the Garlasco crime, if related to that footprint number 33 found near Chiara Poggi's body and attributed to Andrea Sempio , the only person investigated for complicity in murder in the new inquiry.

The chief prosecutor of Pavia Fabio Napoleone, the deputy prosecutor Stefano Civardi and the public prosecutors Valentina De Stefano and Giuliana Rizza have examined the previous statements of the suspect and his friends to understand where the console was located and which places in the villa were frequented by Sempio .

In the days immediately following the crime , Marco Poggi claims that he and his friends did not go down to the tavern where Chiara's body was found, but remained on the ground floor, in the "TV room", or went up to the first floor to use the PC in Chiara's room.

Chiara's parents said instead that Sempio never came into the house, he rang the doorbell, Marco went out and they went around together.

With the start of new investigations, however, Gian Luigi Tizzoni, lawyer for Chiara's family , denies the statements of the Poggi family. He told Repubblica that Sempio instead frequented the tavern, where Marco kept the PlayStation and video games . And so, therefore, fingerprint number 33 would be explained. But the PlayStation and the games, Chiara's mother and brother have always maintained, were in the TV room. A detail also confirmed by the photos taken by the carabinieri on the day of the crime, which show that the PlayStation and the games were in the living room .

What was in the tavern where Chiara's body was found? Marco Poggi said at the time: "Metal shelves with bottles of wine on them, rice, the remains of Christmas baskets and packages, board games and children's games, carnival costumes and various boxes, a cabinet with magazines on it, shoe boxes, books and other objects that I don't remember."

Then there is the lawyer Angela Taccia, Sempio's lawyer, who today claims that her client went down to the tavern to "get the board games" . In short, yet another version.

And Sempio himself, who in 2017 said he only frequented the living room and Chiara's bedroom, corrected his words two months ago, telling Sky Tg24: "I frequented the house, so I imagine there are traces of me around , it's very likely, then the house became the crime scene. Most likely there will be traces of me, I would expect it, I was there until a few days before. The only room I never frequented was the parents' bedroom ."

The PlayStation detail is therefore fundamental: if the suspect had not frequented the tavern on other occasions, footprint number 33 would place him at the crime scene.

We are also waiting for new analyses on the fingerprint, if they reveal the presence of blood we would be faced with a truth that could rewrite the entire history of the Garlasco crime.

The alibi

On the one hand the scientific analyses, on the other the attempt to dismantle an alibi, that of Sempio, which is now wavering .

The focus is on the telephone activity between August 12 and 13 (the day of the crime, which took place) of Daniela Ferrari, Sempio's mother. The night before she had exchanged a series of messages with Antonio B., a former firefighter stationed in Vigevano . And the following morning, on August 13 at 8:47, she sent two more text messages to the former firefighter. At 9:09 her cell phone connected to Gombolò's cell ("I had gone shopping with the family's only car," she explained) and from there a third text message was sent to Vigevano. Then the activity of her cell phone stopped. And the investigators hypothesize that it was she who parked in Piazza Ducale in Vigevano and that therefore the parking receipt with a 10:18 stamp used at the time of the first investigations to confirm her son's alibi is hers . Receipt, the Sempio family will say, found by the father while he was cleaning the car and kept for over a year by Daniela Ferrari, who handed it over to the Carabinieri in 2008 .

This is instead the activity of Sempio's phone on the morning of August 13. It starts at 9.58: several contacts with friends Mattia Capra and Roberto Freddi until 12.18. The cell connected is that of Garlasco, which covers the entire town, both his house and the Poggi villa .

Sempio says he went out and went to the Feltrinelli bookshop in Piazza Ducale in Vigevano. But he finds it closed: the start of the famous receipt, 10:18, is compatible with a trip that began at 10. The phone leaves no traces for over an hour, until 11:10, when it has other telephone contacts, all of which pass through the Garlasco cell . At that time he could have easily travelled the 16 km that separate Garlasco from Vigevano, twenty minutes are enough.

The Sempio number , Stasi's lawyers underline in a report, "is never connected to Vigevano" but is "active" in Garlasco . The inactivity of the phone between 10 and 11:10 does not deny Sempio's alibi, but neither does it provide him with certainty. The receipt is fundamental in this sense, but the investigators suspect that Andrea's mother went to Vigevano that day.

And here the role of Antonio B. becomes fundamental, the former firefighter from Vigevano who stated in his statement that he did not remember whether he had met Daniela Ferrari on 13 August 2007: «But when we spoke the day before, we often spent time together the next day» .

La Stampa went to look for him at home and wrote that the man does not want to talk, he has been locked inside for days. Furthermore, Andrea Sempio's mother, during the last interrogation, felt ill and was taken to the hospital just when the investigators gave her that name .

(Unioneonline/L)

© Riproduzione riservata