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Garlasco, the super-witness shows himself to the cameras and confirms the story about the hammer

The super-witness comes out of anonymity to refute the Poggi lawyer and reveals crucial details about the Garlasco murder.

28 May 2025

Alberto Stasi in una foto d'archivio del 30 aprile 2009 al tribunale di Vigevano. Ansa / Matteo Bazzi

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The first revelations of the "superwitness"

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The second episode of the TV programme Le Iene dedicated to the Garlasco murder revealed the identity of the 'super-witness' uncovered by Iena Alessandro De Giuseppe.

The 'super-witness' is called Gianni Bruscagin who decided to renounce anonymity to answer the lawyer of the Poggi family, Gian Luigi Tizzoni, who had denied Bruscagin's reconstruction sustaining that he knew the 'super-witness very well' and claiming that he was one 'of the many people who in September-October 2007 contacted me proposing theses, in his case, basically acting as a detective'.

'I put my face on it,' says Gianni, 'because I was publicly defamed by the Poggi family's lawyer, after the airing of the report last week, when I spoke about the revelation about Stefania Cappa by a woman I met in hospital.

Bruscagin then showed the notes where he allegedly wrote down what the woman from Tromello had said: 'I did it so that I would not forget. I am not afraid of anything, I told the truth'.

The super-witness claims that it was instead the lawyer Tizzoni who sought him out: 'He called me and we saw each other, he asked me for help: the day after I heard about Stefania Cappa I went to see him, but he stopped me. According to him, it couldn't be done because there was already a lead that was being followed and he didn't tell me to go to the Carabinieri; but I spoke to a colonel I knew, who told me that I was in danger of getting involved. He was from Milan, he put me on alert because he said that those who were dealing with the case were not reliable'.

The first revelations of the 'superwitness'

In the previous broadcast, Bruscagin had recounted the confidence he gathered from a woman who lived in Tromello - a locality not far from Garlasco (Pavia) - near the house of the grandmother of the twins Paola and Stefania Cappa.

In the last episode of the programme, the 'super-witness' had revealed that the lady from Tromello, now deceased, had told him in the past that she had seen Stefania Cappa (not under investigation) 'in a panic' entering the old house owned by her grandmother 'with a heavy bag'. She would then hear a thud, as if someone had thrown something heavy into the nearby canal.

It was precisely these words that directed investigators to Tromello, this May, prompting them to start new search operations in the canal: the irrigation ditch was probed and dredged in search of a possible murder weapon. Among the objects that have re-emerged - described as 'potentially useful to the investigation' - there is also a hammer, which will be analysed to see if it is compatible with the one that - according to Chiara Poggi's father - was missing from the house after the murder.

The witness also told Le Iene that he had tried to give this information to the Poggi's lawyers, but to no avail. "I told the family's lawyer that I had news about the Cappa twins, but he replied that there was already an ongoing investigation into Stasi and another lead could not be superimposed," he said.

Earlier, Le Iene had also aired a phone call from Sempio's mother in which she reported an alleged argument between Chiara Poggi and one of her cousins, which had taken place 'on Sunday', i.e. the day before the murder. The woman did not, however, witness the fight herself: it was reported to her by another person.