The family’s lawyer speaks out: “A line that is too innocent. And trials are not done on TV”
“The Gambirasio family and we, the defense, felt it was not appropriate to participate in these TV shows regarding judicial events. Our line is that trials are held in court, not on Netflix. That series, which I have seen and which adds nothing new compared to the usual things the defense says, was created with an innocentist slant. It is clear that it is constructed to convince viewers that that gentleman is innocent. It is not a neutral operation, it has a very specific purpose”.
Andrea Pezzotta, lawyer for the parents of Yara Gambirasio, the 13-year-old who disappeared from Brembate di Sopra on November 26, 2010 and was found murdered in a field in Chignolo d’Isola on February 26, 2011, speaks exclusively to . Massimo Bossetti, the bricklayer from Mapello arrested on June 16, 2014 following an investigation unprecedented in the world of genetic investigation, was sentenced to life imprisonment for her crime. From the “Unknown 1” DNA on the victim’s underwear to the comparison of approximately 25 thousand genetic profiles of the inhabitants of the area, up to the discovery of a relationship and the identification of the murderer. The key evidence, the telephone cells, the images from the cameras of the van near the area where the girl disappeared, the total lack of an alibi for the suspect and other relevant elements have constituted an accusatory system considered solid by 26 judges in three trials.
But the Netflix series “The Yara Case: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” shows the country a convincing Bossetti, insinuating that he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Not only does it try to dismantle three years of investigation point by point, but it opens the disturbing scenario that the investigators would have fabricated genetic evidence in the laboratory to frame the bricklayer from Mapello. Conjectures strengthened through the reference to the prosecutor of the case, Letizia Ruggeri, who, following the final conviction, moved 54 biological samples to the evidence office, which did not have freezers, thus causing the degradation of the specimens that the defense would have wanted to reanalyze in the review process.
The prosecutor Ruggeri, for the affair, was investigated for misdirection, but the Prosecutor’s Office has already requested the case be shelved. The series focuses on DNA, historically the key evidence and now under accusation both for the procedure that led to the correspondence Unknown 1- Bossetti and for the question of the unrepeatable nature of the test. A saliva swab taken from Damiano Guerinoni, a frequenter of the nightclub near the field where Yara’s body was found, was similar to the genetic profile on Yara’s clothes. In the family tree they found Giuseppe Guerinoni, whose DNA indicated that he was the murderer’s father. They searched among his lovers and identified Ester Arzuffi, Bossetti’s mother. The series emphasizes the circumstance that the son encouraged his mother to undergo the swab requested by the investigators, giving the impression that this behavior was not compatible with a guilty person. However, there is no mention of the fact that at the time Bossetti was not yet aware of being Guerinoni’s son. In short, the docuseries fuels doubts to support the idea that the trial did not go beyond all reasonable doubt.
“Grasso said the right thing in the Corriere della Sera, when he underlined that they should have titled it “Bossetti innocent””, comments the lawyer Pezzotta, who underlines that with the Gambirasio family “we have not spoken at all regarding the series. We talked regarding it at the time, when they informed us that they wanted to start with this initiative. They, following the usual line, said that they wanted to stay out of it in the most absolute way. And I must say that, in light of this type of innocent narrative, we are very happy to have stayed out of it”, he concluded.
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2024-07-21 13:24:01
