Upon your advice, I watched about 20 minutes of the 2 hour episode. I fast forwarded to some of the visual parts. I must confess, this translation stuff is making me a little exasperated! I just want to know the details, I wish I could understand it.
I have found an article in German from 20 min that says (*I think*) that a woman's coat was found in Matthais' home, and perhaps it is the coat of the Katia Iritano (speculation?). Her father says she is responsible, and it is "absolutely outrageous" that anyone would even link her to the girls.
I don't know, but, it all seems so perplexing to me.
Here is the German Article, indicating the jacket found.
(paste it into google search and hit translate, if you missed these instructions previously, it works pretty well)
http://www.20min.ch/news/kreuz_und_quer/story/25797899
Wondergirl, I'm sorry you're feeling like that, but please try to be patient. There is a wealth of information out there, and lots of 'sightings' that the police from 3 countries are still trying to figure out if those are valid or not. Many times it is the willingness of good-intended people to help that make them believe very strongly people they saw are them. Also, keep in mind there are lots of blonde little girls in Italy and Switzerland, I don't know about France, but I imagine it is the same.
There is also the matter of 'overlapping' ....many "sightings' happened at the same time, but in different locations/countries. LE not only has to try to 'verify' these, but then share and compare information with LE from the other 2 countries, to try to rule them out or not.
From all I read, so far
no sightings of the girls in Italy have been confirmed. Also police search dogs have
not indicated the presence of the girls in Italy. Dogs, however, immediately indicated the presence of Matthias in Cerignola, and that's how LE now know his movements at the train station.
The sighting of Matthias at the restaurant in Pietri Sul Mare (close to Salerno, south of Napoli) has been confirmed as well. The dogs not only indicated that he had entered the restaurant, but one dog even went to the same table and indicated the spot where Matthias sat down and had his last lunch alone.
The owner of the restaurant described to the
t what he was wearing. In the Italian show «
Chi l'ha visto?» you can see Irina nodding while that person is on the phone describing him. He mentioned Matthias strabismus, he said he entered the restaurant with an American, he thought they were together, but nope they both sat on different tables and didn't seem to know each other. He described Matthias demeanor as very tranquil, nothing seemed out of place, they even joked a bit. he ordered an antipasto and pizza, desert. Matthias never mentioned anything about a wife or kids. The only thing Matthias asked was how much he would take for a 'picture/portrait' of a woman that was hanging on one of the restaurant's wall.
The sightings of that missing girl (Katia) have NOT been confirmed. In that program you can see when the 'news correspondent' (sorry, don't know how to call the reporter that the TV show sends to locations) shows Katia's picture to Olga O, and she says that with blonde hair, she could positively be the 'blonde/light brown with highlights" woman she saw in Corsica.
You can easily tell that was not very convincing to the program's hostess nor Irina and Valerio, since Olga had initially described that 'blonde woman' to be in her 50s, whilst Katia is only 27.
Katia's family are denying she could ever have had any contact/relationship with Matthias. IMO the positive thing about this, is Katia's disappearance got lots of exposure, and hopefully she will be found soon and safe.
As I said before, I watched yesterday both episodes (Feb. 9th and Feb. 16), 2-hours long each, and I have to commend that show, their correspondents, Italian LE, reporters, and public in general, they have all been amazingly helpful and caring. They have all been short of excellent! Even though so far it appears that the girls (sadly) never set foot in Italy, Italian LE continues their investigations.
On the positive side, Italian LE are saying that the 'cadaver dogs' did not indicate the presence of a body in Matthias car. You know K-9 units are not all the same. Some dogs are specialized in following a person's scent. They are given a person's used clothing to smell so they can track the person's movements.
Other dogs can indicate the exact location where a body had been, even if only for a short time...not a nice thing to explain, but has to do with 'cadaverine compound'.
Other dogs are highly specialized in detecting 'blood' = they bark to indicate their owner they have found it, even if it's so small, not visible to the human eye, or if the area has been washed. Then they indicate with their noses the exact spot, getting very close to it, but without touching the spot.
Sorry for side-tracking. Going back to Matthias car, there was a theory that he could have traveled to Italy with the girls' bodies inside the car, either in the trunk or suitcase, but the dogs have helped in ruling this theory out, and forensics only found a few hairs of the girls in the car, which doesn't mean anything, since they obviously had been in his car lots of times.
Irina was also very positively impressed and thankful for the French LE's response as soon as she arrived to Marseille, when she told them about her husband going missing with the girls. However, the Swiss LE
initial response was sadly not the same.
About that jacket that Irina found at Matthias' house, nobody knows who that jacket belongs to. It's a woman's jacket, and there was some 'paper' found inside it, something personal written, will make another post about that later ... the Swiss police has it ... it is all just speculation that it could belong to Katia.
Hope this helps you a bit
P.S.: If Google translation helps you more, than by all means please do use that feature. I personally will stick to following "Missing Alessia & Livia" Facebook group, and the Italian newspapers and videos; much easier for me.
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