Garlasco (Pavia) – “I have never seen it Firebrands pass cards to my son, or to Lovati. I have never met him in Tizzoni”. Thus the mother of Andrea SempioDaniela Ferrari, heard as a witness on 26 September in the Brescia investigation into the former Pavia prosecutor Mario Vendittiresponded to a question from the investigators, referring to the lawyer Gian Luigi Tizzoni (which has sued Daniela Ferrari), lawyer for the family of Chiara Poggi.
Giuseppe Sempio, Andrea Sempio and the former chief prosecutor of Pavia Mario Venditti
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Garlasco, the Poggis’ lawyer sues mother Sempio: first rift between Chiara and Andrea’s families
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Sempio’s mother: “The cash? To pay the lawyers. Garofano’s advice excluded Andrea’s DNA”
Sempio’s mother also reiterates several times in the report that the money from the cash withdrawals was used to pay the lawyers and also speaks of that “consultancy from General Garofano”, which their lawyers had already had done at the beginning of 2017 and which “certainly excluded that the DNA found under Chiara Poggi’s nails” was her son’s. Both the father and the mother then explained that already on 23 December 2016 they had learned “from TV” that their son was under investigation because “DNA had been found under his nails”. And Daniela Ferrari summed up the lawyers’ defense thus: “I know that they took the papers and that they assisted him during the interrogation“.
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Sempio and the unseized papers: the note “118 laid out at the bottom of the Stasi scale”, the note “1) calls vs landline Poggi” and the Bozzola memorial
Giuseppe Sempio: “The wiretaps? I don’t remember”
The father was also asked to account for the wiretap in which, according to the new investigations, he and his son seemed aware of the questions before the interrogation. To the investigators who asked him “who told you those things that they would have asked your son”, Giuseppe Sempio he replied: “I don’t remember.”
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Andrea Sempio and the interception before the 2017 report: “Called by a policeman, he told me he had to ask me some questions”
Andrea’s aunts and uncle were also heard on record who, in essence, said that they had helped the family with money because they needed it.
Finally, Silvio Sapone, one of the former carabinieri searched, stated in another testimony that he had “never spoken to Sempio” and that he had never dealt with the wiretaps. And he added, referring to the 2017 investigation: “Then it is the magistrates who make the assessments.”
