The Pavia prosecutor's office's indictment against Andrea Sempio, under investigation for the murder of Chiara Poggi in Garlasco on August 13, 2007, is as heavy as a millstone and effectively exonerates someone who has already been definitively convicted of that crime: the young accountant's ex-boyfriend, Alberto Stasi, who is completing a 16-year sentence. On May 6, summoned for questioning in Pavia, where he exercised his right to remain silent, Sempio heard the prosecutors meticulously list all the charges against him. Deputy prosecutor Stefano Civardi informed him that he had attacked Chiara, which, after she had rejected his alleged advances, had become "blind and disproportionate," a "furious annihilation concentrated on her face and head, as if the intent were to erase every trace of the person who had resisted." They also explained to him that the "new elements that have emerged" "debunk the "'pornographic motive' alleged by Stasi" and, on the other hand, "provide solid evidence regarding Sempio's attempted sexual approach," because the investigation has uncovered circumstances and factual elements that are entirely new compared to the investigations at the time and subsequent proceedings," which were archived. Essentially, Sempio is accused of having told nothing but lies for 20 years.
Not only that: from a rereading of a 2017 wiretap, the Pavia Prosecutor's Office also claims that Andrea Sempio, in one of his soliloquies, "seems to be referring to the time he showed up at the victim's house on the day of the murder." In the transcripts of the audio from February 8, 2017, the 38-year-old states: "Something happened that day (...) he was always there at home (...) but damn (...) at half past nine."
Yet Chiara Poggi, speaking to her boyfriend Alberto Stasi, never mentioned any advances related to the strange phone calls she received, nor any suspicions about Andrea Sempio. Stasi himself said this when interviewed by investigators on May 20, 2025, as reported today by several newspapers: "Did Chiara ever mention advances related to those strange calls she received a few days before the crime?" "No, she didn't. Hypothetically speaking, I think it would have depended on other factors: whether she thought it was important at the time, whether she wasn't distracted by other things."
Stasi, however, recalls the mention of a colleague's advances. Prosecutor Fabio Napoleone asks him if Chiara had ever mentioned the suspect Andrea Sempio. "No." And if he had any inkling that anyone might have seen the intimate videos. "Not as far as I know, even after some time." Did Chiara suspect her brother had noticed? "I tend to rule it out."
Meanwhile, according to the new "BPA" blood stain analysis, there are further traces on the cellar stairs where Chiara Poggi's body was found. Corriere della Sera reports: near the entrance, there is what appears to be the imprint of a blood-stained left hand, and then other marks in the shape of an inverted C, with square corners, left in several places. Investigators believe that this is where the blood-stained weapon may have been placed on the ground.
(Unioneonline)
