Translation excerpt from trial transcript July 25, 2011
Conti is showing a video and talking about the images, referring to them by hours, minutes and seconds.
At 26:38 [Stefanoni] takes the swab with the other hand to fold it: 26:53 she takes a small haematic sample with the swab that was already passed over almost three tiles; someone asks if there are paper envelopes and the reply is that there are no more paper envelopes; at 46:27 the tweezers are not used any more for taking samples from the floor; at one o'clock the same sampling as the one before; a sample from the floor holding the swab with the finger without using the tweezers which are in the palm of the hand; at 01:05 the tweezers are not used to hold the swab sampling the floor; between 01:16 and 01:18:24 we can hear Dr. Stefanoni several times come in and go out of the room which is the maximum level of crime scene containment, as we saw earlier; at 1:22 and 1:25 a bra is collected, the presumed bra of Meredith from the floor, with the hands, and is placed in a transparent plastic envelope, Dr. Stefanoni is not [or does not appear to be: "non risulta indossare"] wearing the face-mask; at 1:22, at 1:22:25 one sees an agent behind without any protection on the head and without a face-mask; before being placed in an envelope the bra was touched by the finger of another agent; one sees the underwear being picked up from the floor, waved around, a more exact term would be that the exhibit was "shaken" [sgrullare; a very special word] and then placed in a plastic envelope. Before being placed in the envelope the bra is touched by a finger of another agent, one sees the wrist of Dr. Stefanoni's protective suit stained with haematic substance; at 1:34 one sees two people moving the body without any protective suit, only gloves and shoe covers; one of them has a female voice; at 1:37 a person appears wearing a black hat on their head, and another is using blue gloves. From this point on, the samples of hairlike formations are taken with the hands without using tweezers. At 1:44:36 until 1:44:38 one can hear Dr. Stefanoni saying: "Her nails are fairly long and well-kept"; at 1:46 both hands are inserted into plastic envelopes; at 1:48 one sees a person wearing jeans in the crime scene, i.e. in Meredith's room; at 1:49 one sees [the person] clearly touching the body; at 1:52 one hears Dr. Stefanoni referring to the wound on the neck: "The edges appear jagged" while the other person is touching those edges and the whole edge of the wound and partially also inside. At 1:53 one sees the hair of a person wearing no protection in front of the camera, at 1:54 other people without protective suits, wearing only gloves and shoe covers, are moving around Meredith's body; at 1:55 and 1:56 a person with only shoe covers, wearing jeans and a sweater points to something with his foot and stretches his leg over Meredith's body; at 1:57 another person in jeans and a sweater with lowered shoe covers; at 1:58 hairlike formations are taken with hands that are gloved and dirty with haematic substance, from behind Meredith and after having manipulated the body several times; at 2:02 a person wearing jeans and a sweater uses glove-clad hands to take a piece of fabric found under the body and places it in a plastic envelope; another person in jeans and a sweater is also present. At 2:12 a woman without a face-mask, without any head protection and with a sweater again in Meredith's room. t 2:24 appears the bra clasp which is described and indicated as being positioned under the pillow. There is also an iconographic, photographic documentation relative to the finding of this bra clasp. The filming starts again at 12:41 with Dr. Stefanoni appearing holding the material in her fingers, the unused tweezers in the palm of her hand; it is cut from the material as an exhibit [??] and again the protective headwear is missing. At 12:42 another sample, this time using the tweezers but the gloves are stained with haematic substance and the index finger of the left hand seems to appear in a broken glove. At 12:45 swabs are used without tweezers, without protective headwear and face-mask, 12:47 same sampling in the same way; 12:51 as before while taking samples from the traces on the door handle, and the tweezers are only used at 12:51, at 12:55 the same situation without tweezers on the traces on the wall; at 13:00 three distinct although contiguous stains of blood are sampled with the same swab and without tweezers; 13:50 biological traces from the toilet are taken by gloved hands and placed in a plastic envelope and the fingers also go inside in order to push it well into the test-tube; excrements taken at 13:56 in the toilet with tweezers, note that the contour on the inside of the cup is not stained; when they are placed in the test-tube one sees the glove and the sleeve of the protective suit are stained; 14:02 again without face-mask and protective headwear one hears instructions to place a glass inside a plastic bag; 14:02 one sees a dirty glove-thumb of a left hand; 14:10 samples are taken on two splashes of blood with the same swab, which is obviously humid and not dry; 14:21 again no face-mask; 16:36 samples taken without tweezers, for some time already no longer single-use tweezers but metal tweezers; 16:54 the paper envelopes reappear for the conseration of findings; 18:23 the video operator enters from outside to the inside wihtout changing shoe covers, and this one can be seen throughout the continuity of the video, so from the passage from the most exterior containment perimeter to the second level of containment; 18:24, and here I would ask you to pay particular attention to this passage, at the request of the video operator of the Scientific Police as to whether he should film the cigarette stubs in the kitchen, from his dialogue with another agent of the Scientific Police one hears: "It's absurd, absolutely absurd, I sharply criticized it, unbelievable [inverosimile] disorganization in every aspect". One sees a person with no protection at 18:27, at 20:45 three people without face-masks and protective headwear are on the ground with sampling instruments, tranquilly placed on the floor of the habitation, with no protection.
And if we go back in time, farther back, to see if all the procedures and protocols dictated by the International Community as to anticontamination norms, we come to November 2, 2007. At 15:10, no external area of protection; no perimeter of containment; 15:10:45 no internal area of protection, no secondary area of containment; the video operator of the Scientific Police enters from the outside to the inside wearing the same shoe covers and this throughout the continuity of the video; at 15:10 no area of stockage between the exterior perimeter and the secondary containment, so a lack of material containers for gloves, suits, face-masks, tweezers etc.; 15:10 no area of protection between the different areas of the house, lack of containment at the secondary and primary levels, agents of the Scientific Police enter and leave from all the rooms without ever even changing shoe covers; 15:20 no area of protection defining Meredith's room, the maximal (primary) level of containment of the crime scene. 15:20 a person with a coat is in Meredith's room, which, recall, is the crime scene, and touches the quilt which covers the body with gloves; 16:28 an agent from outside the house tries to break down a door with repeated kicks without wearing any protection except gloves; at the end of the attempt she smashes the glass with a violent kick and the glass flies to the outside and to the inside.
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