Garlasco crime, the European Court of Human Rights rejects Alberto Stasi's appeal

There European Court of Human Rights declared inadmissible the appeal asking for the annulment of the definitive sentence of 16 years of imprisonment presented by Alberto Stasi , the former Bocconi student who is serving his sentence on charges of having killed his girlfriend Chiara Poggi, in Garlasco (Pavia) on 13 August 2007.

In the appeal, Stasi complained of the violation of his rights: in the second appeal hearing, a couple of witnesses on some arguments requested by his defense were not heard. On this point, the Court of Cassation had already rejected an extraordinary appeal in 2018.

Stasi, who has been working outside the Bollate prison for some time, should settle his debt with justice by serving his sentence in about three and a half years.

"I hope that this decision will put an end to this legal case once and for all," commented Gian Luigi Tizzoni, lawyer for Chiara Poggi's family. In declaring the appeal inadmissible, as manifestly unfounded, the ECHR considered "that the decision of the appeal court of remand not to hear again" the witnesses "did not compromise the fairness of the criminal proceedings against the appellant, considered as a whole."

(Online Union)