And finally the storm came. Garlasco’s story is likely to become an Italian story that will be discussing for years. I never liked to compare, as Tolstoj says, every happy family looks like each unhappy family is in its own way. To talk about a new Tortora case would be incorrect but we can say that the effect on public opinion and history is similar.
According to the Prosecutor of Pavia Sempio is the guilty of the death of Chiara Poggi, killed in her house in Garlasco on the morning of August 13, 2007 with a corpse that has fallen several times and several times on her poor head fatally. The motive? A sexual approach rejected.
Stasi, condemned for this crime at 16, and now on probation, would therefore be innocent. Now there will be the interrogation of Sempio, his lawyers already say stunned, the formal and procedural investigation of the truth will still be long.
But of course it is that the so-called revision of the Stasi process, already complex and twisted and with two assemblies, is rather a shock revolution. Many authoritative colleagues, starting with the great Vittorio Feltri, have always said that the reasonable doubt in the case of this affair remained here! Now the doubt falls into its worst shadow.
If he were so innocent, he was in prison for too many years unfairly, and a culprit did good or bad his life. We still use the conditioner, we’ll remove it at the right time.
And why did it take 18 years to reevaluate the signs of the crime scene? Then why was Sempio’s position torn? Did someone hurt their job? Has anyone hindered or obscured the investigation? Have there been silences, omissions, connivencies, blackmails, beyond mistakes?
They are all answers to the victim’s family, but also to those who have or would have paid unjustly. Of course it is, and we say it for a long time, that the so-called machine of truth in Garlasco, a small town not far from Milan, stopped.
In those villas bordering each other and with the Lombard countryside, a life has been lost and the guiding thread of every justice worthy of this name has been lost. There are many things to put in the new puzzle, many characters, many details, and there is the so-called social context with its ties still to be clarified.
We’ll have a chance to talk about it and Italian TV is already doing it h24. But again, the choc is great. And despite referendums and debates and impossible reforms it is not clear to me whether, as happens in every work of a democracy, who has wronged this time will pay or not.
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