Garlasco murder, witness: ‘Parking receipt does not belong to Sempio’

Rome, 22 October (LaPresse) – New developments in the investigation into the murder of Chiara Poggi, the young woman killed in Garlasco on 13 August 2007. A witness has reportedly “debunked” the version provided by Andrea Sempio, a friend of the victim’s brother and recently added to the list of suspects, questioning the authenticity of the famous “parking ticket” from Vigevano, a central element in his defence. This was reported by “Il Corriere della Sera”. In the last few hours, investigators have traced a person “informed of the facts” who was questioned about the Vigevano parking ticket dated 13 August 2007, which was provided a year after the crime — on 4 October 2008 — to the Vigevano police by the victim’s brother’s friend when he was questioned for the second time. A ticket that in the first investigation in Pavia on Sempio in 2017 — now at the centre of an investigation by the Brescia Public Prosecutor’s Office, which sees former deputy Mario Venditti under investigation for corruption — was one of the key points in the dismissal signed by investigating magistrate Fabio Lambertucci,” writes the newspaper. The ticket from Piazza Sant’Ambrogio, paid for at 10.18 a.m. on the day of the murder, was immediately considered not as an alibi but as a “suspicious” element in the new investigation by the Pavia public prosecutors led by Fabio Napoleone.