Garlasco case: Re-examination annuls seizures for former carabinieri Sapone and Spoto
The two ex-servicemen, who are not under investigation, were returned the seized electronic devices. The subject of the investigation was not well defined
Key points
The Brescia Re-examination Court cancelled the search and seizure order issued on 26 September last year against the former carabinieri Silvio Sapone and Giuseppe Spoto, not under investigation, involved in the investigation into the former Pavia assistant public prosecutor Mario Venditti, investigated for corruption in judicial proceedings because in 2017 he allegedly favoured - according to the prosecution - in exchange for 20-30 thousand euro, the filing of Andrea Sempio, newly investigated for the joint murder of Chiara Poggi killed in Garlasco on 13 August 2007.
According to the investigations of the Brescia Public Prosecutor's Office, in particular the decree against Venditti, the two former police officers of the Pavia Judicial Police had contacts and meetings with Sempio during the investigation and there were also errors and omissions in the transcripts of the wiretaps.
The technical reasons
After the hearing on 21 October, the court - presided over by Brescia judge Giovanni Pagliuca - ordered the restitution of all the goods, including the iPhone, seized from Sapone (defended by lawyer Massimo Marmonti) and also of the electronic devices seized from Spoto, including three mobile phones, two hard disks and two laptops. For Spoto, defended by lawyer Marco Casali, the rest of the decree was confirmed.
The arguments of the defence
«Il decreto è stato annullato per ragioni tecniche sulla base delle linee guida della Cassazione», spiega il legale Casali che, in attesa delle motivazioni attese entro trenta giorni, ipotizza come l’annullamento possa essere legato al fatto che «non sono state indicate le parole chiave da cercare e il perimetro temporale entro cui cercare visto che si tratta di eventi lontani nel tempo». Per l'avvocato, la decisione è in linea con quanto stabilito, già dal 2020 dalla Cassazione, che in tema di sequestro di Pc e cellulari chiede un raggio d'azione ben delimitato. «L'oggetto dell'indagine deve essere ben individuato - afferma l'avvocato Casali - indicazioni che nello specifico mancavano. Cercare tutto, visti i tempi risalenti dei fatti, vuol dire scandagliare nove anni di vita di una persona. In più, mancava anche la tempistica, non era specificato quando i device sarebbero
As had already happened on 17 October, with the annulment of the decree after Venditti's appeal, the two ex-servicemen were therefore also given back all the electronic devices that had been seized. In particular, the judges of the re-examination ordered the return of the devices to Sapone and then also of keys, hard disks, PCs, telephones and other electronic instruments seized from Spoto, confirming, however, for the latter 'in the rest' the decree on documentary seizures. Documents that - as lawyer Casali points out - would be reduced, in essence, to a practically empty diary.
