Garlasco: Stasi is released from prison and granted probation. Nordio: ‘An unusual case’

Alberto Stasi has been released from prison and granted probationary release under the supervision of social services. The decision was made by the Milan Supervisory Court, which upheld the defence’s application, to which the Public Prosecutor’s Office had given its approval. The news, first reported by Tg La7, has been confirmed by reliable sources. Stasi was on day-release. The granting of probation is not linked to any review of his trial, for which the defence will file an application.

The Office of the Attorney General, headed by Francesca Nanni and Deputy Attorney General Valeria Marino, has issued a favourable opinion on his good conduct as a prisoner over the past few years, including during his period of day release, and on the positive reports from the staff at Bollate Prison. This recommendation, combined with the timing (his sentence ends in 2028, imprisoned since 2015 with a final sentence of 16 years for the Garlasco murder) and the benefits already granted (first external work and then day release), leads almost automatically to his being placed on probation under the supervision of social services to serve the remainder of his sentence.

‘I cannot, will not and must not speak about ongoing trials, let alone situations that are, shall we say, painful and tragic such as those. I have said and I repeat for the umpteenth time that the anomaly in the Stasi trial stems from the fact that it is highly questionable that a person who has been acquitted twice by a Court of Assizes and a Court of Appeal should ultimately be convicted without a fresh trial, but simply following a supplementary investigation’. This was stated by Justice Minister Carlo Nordio at the Forum in Masseria 2026, on the sidelines of his speech, in response to a question about the Garlasco case. ‘Since we have the principle that you cannot be convicted unless the evidence against you is beyond reasonable doubt, how can you,’ he said, ‘convict a person whom two very high courts have doubted to such an extent that they acquitted them? This is obviously not the fault of those judges, it is the fault,” concluded Nordio, “of a system that is unique in the world; for example, in the Anglo-Saxon legal system, such a thing would be unthinkable.”