Milan, 11 May (LaPresse) – The Poggi family’s lawyer, Gian Luigi Tizzoni, says he is “somewhat surprised” by the “volume of meetings and truly very frequent exchanges” between investigators, the Pavia Public Prosecutor’s Office and Alberto Stasi’s “defence team”, which appear to emerge from the investigation files on Andrea Sempio. The lawyer, who obtained a copy of the documentation on Saturday, made these comments in response to questions from journalists who approached him outside the Milan Court. Responding to the “accusations” levelled at Chiara Poggi’s family in recent hours – accused of obstructing the investigation into Sempio and of changing their stories over time – Tizzoni states that “the Poggi home has always been made available, perhaps even on the occasion when they installed the infamous bugging devices, which we have seen reported” in the newspapers alongside the wiretaps of family members. “Cooperation has always been full and proper,” but Chiara Poggi’s mother, father and brother (represented by his colleague Francesco Compagna) are said to be “particularly distressed and disheartened to have seen how this investigation has been one-sided, essentially aimed at discrediting Stasi’s responsibility, which was established in this building (pointing to the Milan Court, ed.), and subsequently at the Court of Cassation, confirmed on several occasions by both the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights". ‘So the family’s view,’ he concludes, ‘is that the Pavia Public Prosecutor’s Office is dogged in its attempts to overturn what has already been established in the courtrooms,’ but that it has done so ‘in a rather disappointing manner because, from what I can see, it is a task that may seem mammoth but fails to address the central issues of the case’ and of the trials already conducted over the past 19 years.
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