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Garlasco, Pavia prosecutor: Sempio killed Chiara Poggi alone. Summoned on 6 May

The Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office attributes the 2007 murder to Andrea Sempio alone and considers a review of Alberto Stasi's final conviction

29 April 2026aggiornato ore 14:45

Andrea Sempio esce dalla caserma dei Carabinieri Montebello di via Vincenzo Monti accompagnato dai suoi avvocati, Milano 13 Marzo 2025 ANSA/MATTEO CORNER ANSA

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The Pavia public prosecutor's office has changed the charge in the new investigation into the murder of Chiara Poggi, who was killed on 13 August 2007 in the small villa in Via Pascoli in Garlasco (PV). In the summons to appear set for 6 May, Andrea Sempio, 38, a friend of the victim's brother, is no longer charged in conspiracy with other persons or with Alberto Stasi:prosecutors now charge him only with voluntary manslaughter.

At the same time, Pavia's public prosecutor, Fabio Napoleone, has initiated talks with Milan's public prosecutor's office to request a possible request for a revision of the trial against Alberto Stasi, who was definitively sentenced to 16 years as the sole perpetrator of the crime. At the moment, however, the acts of the new investigation have not yet been transmitted to Milan: this is the necessary step to assess whether the elements collected can support the hypothesis of innocence of the victim's ex-boyfriend and formally reopen the case on a judicial level.

Simio's defence: Andrea had no relationship with Chiara

Andrea Sempio oscillates between 'calm and resigned', but he cannot understand 'this sexual motive' contested in the investigation that sees him as the alleged murderer of Chiara Poggi. "He did not have relations with this girl, I have never dated her and I do not understand this motive, but I am sure it has nothing to do" with the Garlasco murder, he says through his lawyer Angela Taccia. The motive is one of the novelties of the 13 August 2007 crime contained in the invitation to appear of the Pavia prosecutor's office.

Garlasco, Pm di Pavia: "Sempio ha ucciso da solo Chiara Poggi"

The Prosecutor: Sempio argued with Chiara and hit her at least 12 times, even on the stairs

An argument, then repeated blows, at least 12, inflicted mainly on the head and also on the stairs. The scene of the Garlasco murder changed and so did the perpetrator of the murder of Chiara Poggi, killed with a weapon that remains unknown on the morning of 13 August 2007. This is what the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office claims.

In the deed, the public prosecutor explains that Sempio, 'after an initial scuffle, repeatedly struck the victim with a blunt instrument (first in the left frontal region and in the right zygomatic region), causing him to fall to the ground'.

He then 'dragged her in order to lead her towards the cellar door' and, after the 26-year-old woman 'tried to react by crawling on all fours, he hit her again with at least 3-4 blows' always to the head 'causing her to lose consciousness'.

Following this, he 'pushed the victim's body, causing it to slide down the stairs leading to the cellar where, although she was already unconscious, he hit her with at least 4-5 blows' still to the back of the head, 'causing' Chiara Poggi 'cranioencephalic injuries from which she died'.

A crime dictated by the fact that the young woman had refused his advances (aggravating circumstance of futile motives) and aggravated by cruelty 'in view of the heinousness of the murderous action due to the number and extent of the wounds inflicted on the victim, of which at least 12 were injuries to the skull and face'.

Poggi consultant: pm reconstruction incompatible with crime scene

"The dynamics of events indicated in the indictment presents elements that in my opinion are not objectively corroborated by the crime scene as documented during the inspections of the Carabinieri of the territorial and Ris of Parma".

This is how Dario Redaelli, the Poggi family's consultant, comments on the Pavia Public Prosecutor's Office's reconstruction in the summons to appear served on Andrea Sempio, who is believed to be solely responsible for the murder of Chiara, killed in Garlasco on 13 August 2007.

there is talk of the body being pushed on the cellar stairs, but on the first two steps there are only drips, no traces of dragging," explained Redaelli, an expert in crime scene analysis. "There is talk of 4-5 blows being vibrated with such violence as to cause the large skull fracture in the left parieto-occipital position, but along the stairs there are no traces of blood due to the blunt instrument used, in addition to the presence of limited splashes.

'Therefore, there are several doubts about the reconstruction,' the expert concludes, 'but maximum caution and absolute necessity to see the investigative-technical material collected by the public prosecutor's office.