Garlasco murder, Pavia public prosecutor: ‘Sempio’s lawyer lied on Corona’s show’

Milan, 8 October (LaPresse) – The statements made by Andrea Sempio’s lawyer, Massimo Lovati, as a guest on Fabrizio Corona’s show “Falsissimo EP 16-Speciale Garlasco Parte 3” are ‘objectively without any foundation’. This was stated in a note by the Pavia Public Prosecutor, Fabio Napoleone, condemning Lovati’s chronological reconstruction of the origins of the new investigation into the Garlasco murder, which sees Marco Poggi, brother of the victim Chiara, killed on 13 August 2007, under investigation. “The criminal proceedings relating to the murder of Chiara Poggi were prompted by the defence of the convicted person, Alberto Stasi, filing a report on forensic genetics signed by consultant Dr Ugo Ricci, a specialist in medical genetics at the University of Careggi – Florence” and by an “opinion” from “Prof Lutz Roever”, writes the Public Prosecutor. This took place ‘in 2023’ when Deputy Prosecutor Stefano Civardi ‘was working at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Milan’ and not in Pavia. In that year, the Pavia investigators ‘commissioned the Department of Forensic Genetics of the University of Pavia (in the person of technical consultants Dr Carlo Previderè and Dr Pierangela Grignani)’ to carry out ‘repeatable technical investigations’ into the alleged traces of Sempio’s DNA on Chiara Poggi’s fingernails, as claimed by the Stasi defence. On 14 February 2024, ‘a request to reopen the investigation was filed’ with the signatures of Napoleone himself and his deputies Andrea Zanoncelli (now a public prosecutor in Milan) and Valentina De Stefano, who is still assigned to the case. ‘The co-assignment of the criminal proceedings’ to Deputy Civardi, who arrived in Pavia in February 2024, ‘took place subsequently,’ the note concludes.