If the Stasi, the dna at the crime scene Poggi is back in the limelight: six years of battles between geneticists – The Republic

who is the trace of dna found under the fingernails of Chiara Poggi? That trust and which weight has the new expertise that the family of Alberto Stasi – condemned with a definitive sentence to 16 years for the murder of his girlfriend, which took place in Garlasco on August 13, 2007, and appointed an unknown geneticist and a company of investigations of Milan? “That material does not belong to Stasis, but to a young man who knew Clear” is the new thesis which would be submitted – the reports the Corriere della Sera – the legal of the study law and “virtue” (that protect the f ormer student from bocconi university), on behalf of the mother of the Same Stasis, Elizabeth Ligabò.

In substance: the analysis conducted privately by the defense would demonstrate that the entity to which are attributed the traces of the genetic on which it was debated for years – then we will explain the how and the why – not is the 38-year-old of Garlasco, but, rather, another individual whose identity has not yet been made known (perhaps original and resident in Pavia, perhaps belonging to the circle of friends of Chiara and Alberto). An individual whose dna would have been taken, without the knowledge of the owner, in order to prove the compatibility with what has emerged (but it would be more correct to say: it came, saw that the results were considered to be “not sufficiently reliable”) in 2014 in laboratory test arranged by the Court of Assizes of appeal of Milan.

the Test, carried out in Genoa – contradictory – in the presence of the lawyers and experts-geneticists on both sides: Poggi family and family Friends. In those analysis, the defense of Stasis was in fact the opposite for years (during the whole process of first instance): roughly, then, from 2010. We always wondered the reason for the refusal. In contrast, the same test was repeatedly urged by defense counsel of the Poggi family. Just to make this clear. And in order to understand if – in addition to the serious clues which have finally led to the sentencing of Stasis to 16 years (“guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” reasoned the Supreme court in its judgment), there was also another: the possible “match” between his dna and that found under the fingernails of the poor clares.

ERRORS AND OMISSIONS: THE BLACK POINTS OF the INQUIRY

The Court of appeal fixed, therefore, the analysis in Genoa. This is the result: professor Francesco De Stefano, professor of the department of Science and Health at the University of Genoa, put to the judges the expertise on the examination of mitochondrial of the bulb of the hair is short brown hair found in the palm of the left hand of Light (due to the lack of material available it was not possible to get information) and on the traces of male dna identified on some fragments of the nails of the girl (the ones that are now withdrawn in dance from the legal Stasis).

The analysis, which led to highlight just five markers – all compatible with those of the Stasi – gave results considered to be “not sufficiently reliable”. Much was depended on the characteristics of the biological material male examined: very low quantities (almost “minimal”) and very degraded (although preserved in the appropriate cold storage, however, had seven years). That’s why the tables prepared by De Stefano had not offered evidence considered (by both parties, even by the legal Stasis) useful for “identification purposes”. even then – two years ago – someone spoke to a mister X: a subject ‘other’ than the Stasis that was not finished in the inquiry. Even you spoke of two men. All suggestions then falls into the void. The inability to get to a scientific test result is sat isfactory, on the basis of the examination of the material found under the nails, and put an end to the issue. And also to the hypothesis advanced by some media. “The theme is not at all new. The one that leaves us puzzled – regardless of the mode of taking these data, and I am referring to the dna taken – is that the defence of Stasis has not found that to provide the name of the subject from their hypothesized. However, one fact remains: all of these checks have already been done in the due process of the parties in 2014 in Genoa, italy. And the thesis of the defense of Stasis have been rejected definitively by the Supreme court in 2015.”

it should also Be remembered a detail: and always covers the tests performed in Genoa in 2014. It was the same Fabio Giarda, legal Stasis, to comment on the outcome with these words: “Expertise is not valid for the process”. Now, instead, it is precisely that expertise that the defence of Stasis try to make amends. Perhaps in view of the imminent filing an appeal with the european Court of human rights. “They will do what they can,” commented Marzio Capra, the geneticist who has followed the family

Chiara Poggi – Are things that scientifically are worth zero. Seems to me to be another attempt of the media. This case is one of the few cases in which everything has always been done in the due process of the parties. There is no new fact, are facts already discussed in the cross-examination. And the tables are the same as two years ago: there was biological material from male, poor, and degraded. Unusable then and even less usable today.”

Topics:

murder, garlasco

Starring:

Alberto Stasi

Chiara