With the Pavia Prosecutor's Office's move to order additional investigations, including a psychiatric consultation on the suspect believed to be the killer , it will be a long time, at least until after the summer, to finally conclude the investigation into Andrea Sempio's accusations of murdering Chiara Poggi . This investigation exonerates the only convicted suspect, Alberto Stasi, who is now seeking a review of his trial, which ended 11 years ago with a definitive 16-year sentence.
In a statement, Prosecutor Fabio Napoleone announced that the matter isn't over yet. He also said it will be a few more months before his office, barring any unexpected developments, requests a committal for trial for the 38-year-old who has been at the center of the investigation for over a year.
The prosecutors, in fact, have ordered a consultation to assess "pathological conditions likely to affect Sempio's mental capacity," and for this reason, Professor Roberto Catanesi, a psychiatrist, has been appointed as a technical consultant. This decision, along with others, comes "following the filing by the defendant's defense of multiple technical consultations conducted in the short timeframe" since the notification of the investigation's closure on May 7.
Five reports, plus a brief, were completed in record time by the experts appointed by lawyers Liborio Cataliotti and Angela Taccia to refute the key points of the prosecution's reconstruction, including the well-known palm print 33 and the shoe print. Therefore, "given that the preliminary investigation is still pending (with a deadline set for September 28, 2026)," the Prosecutor's Office explains, "it was deemed appropriate to order further investigations."
Thus, it was decided that "the Public Prosecutor's technical consultants, already appointed, will proceed with specific checks, in order to examine the technical proposals put forward by the defense and evaluate their validity, also in terms of rigor and scientific reliability." These are counter-arguments to the expert reports submitted by the defense of the clerk.
