This morning on Mattino 5 News we discussed Dr. Albani’s report regarding the Garlasco case: let’s find out what is issued
Extensive analysis on the Garlasco case this morning at Morning 5 News, in light of the publication of the expert’s report Dr. Albani on the genetic material found on poor Chiara Poggi‘s nails. The fifth channel talk spoke to the lawyer Taccia, Andrea Sempio‘s lawyer, who explained: “Although it is positive in a certain sense for Andrea Sempio, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because conclusions were reached that I feared, I feared in the sense that they don’t tell us anything more than what we already knew.” He then continued: “We are calm, the conclusions released in the media are only excerpts, we should analyze and read them all and understand the context, it goes without saying that if we have premises and data, let’s say initial, which are factual elements, artefacts, not consolidated, with all the critical issues they present”.
And again: “Regardless of Professor De Stefano’s speech, which comes out of my ears, it is obvious that the conclusions can never be certain, obviously it is not individualizing, it is not dateable, it’s not certain, it’s partial, it’s a haplotype, we’re talking about nothing. I would like to reiterate that actually the prof. De Stefano acted as an expert, super partes, and therefore with the possibility for the various consultants to demonstrate assessments and observations. I will always repeat that even Professor Giarda, of Stasi’s defense, has always stated that that DNA could not be attributed to anyone.”
GARLASCO CRIME, CATALIOTTI’S COMMENT
So instead Andrea Sempio’s other lawyer, Liborio Cataliotti, again speaking to Mattino 5 News: “The numbers, the markers, the peaks, which were detected, may be artefacts as Dr. Albani says. The genetic material was not re-analysed, the work of Professor De Stefano was taken up again, with all the limitations that the professor had already expressed, and a statistical evaluation was made on that, that is, on the individual responses that gave these possible artefacts, i.e. the starting data which are possibly wrong depending on whether one or the other is taken, depending on the statistical-probabilistic evaluation that is made”.
Cataliotti added: “That is the response, that is, a moderately strong comparability with Sempio’s male family tree is possible. We were interested in the expert saying that it cannot be said that it is from direct contact, that it can be traced back to that day, and he did not do so”, adding that: “If the genetic material on the nails had been consistent and a lot, as in the usual defense cases, there would not have been talk of a deteriorated artefact in the narrow senseand so that would have been solid proof or evidence, but the expert report says the opposite.”
GARLASCO CRIME, THE WORDS OF DE RENSIS AND FABBRI
Lawyer Antonio De Rensis, Alberto Stasi’s lawyer, has a different opinion on Garlasco’s report: “There is an illustrious geneticist who will explain it to us, that report is absolutely not worth zero, there is a compatibility and therefore we take the positive results, but the critical issues that have been highlighted… I remember that until yesterday morning it was said that some scientific arguments were the guiding light”, referring not too subtly to the De Stefano report.
In the end the words of the geneticist Fabbri, of the Stasi defense team, according to which: “I believe that, having arrived at the conclusion of an expert report, having formulated comparisons, having carried out biostatistical calculations which gave the value, I believe that the result has a scientific basis. Differently from this, if it had been disposable, Albani would have disposed of it much earlier and would have filed the technical advice much earlier”. Two therefore clearly opposing opinions, those between prosecution and defense, and which will probably never meet. However, it seems difficult to think of an indictment on DNA data that is anything but certain: if there were no certainties about Stasi, there are even fewer certainties about Sempio.
