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Garlasco, tests confirm presence of DNA 'unknown 3'. Clarifications requested on the method used to swab Chiara

The examinations confirmed that of the five samples, one is that of the assistant coroner who performed the autopsy on the victim in 2007 and the other belongs to an unknown man, unknown 3. The other three were unreadable.

11 July 2025aggiornato il 14 luglio alle ore 17,14

Incidente probatorio per l’omicidio di Garlasco presso la Questura di via Fatebenefratelli, Milano 4 Luglio 2025 ANSA/MATTEO CORNER

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The results on Chiara Poggi's oropharyngeal swab analysed in the evidentiary accident in the new investigation into the Garlasco crime have arrived. It is learnt that the examinations confirmed that of the five samples, one is that of the medical examiner's assistant who performed the autopsy on the victim in 2007 and the other belongs to an unknown man, unknown 3. The other three are unknown.

The raw data on one of the tampons of the girl, murdered on 13 August 2007, in Garlasco, was reported by the parties' consultants to have been transmitted by Denise Albani, the geneticist appointed by the Pavia gip Daniela Garlaschelli to carry out the unrepeatable technical investigations.

Clarara asked for clarification on swab method

Denise Albani will ask the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the victim for clarification on how he performed the saliva sampling, why he used gauze that is not sterile and not a swab, and who, if any, was present in the autopsy room besides him and his assistant. The request for enlightenment from Dr. Dario Ballardini will be used to understand whether the unidentified male DNA trace, confirmed by the replica of the tests on the girl's oropharyngeal swab, was the result of contamination.

Data from a first extraction and that speaks of a Y genetic profile but in a very small quantity, which could also be due to 'contamination', of those who handled the gauze with which the material was taken at the time. Indeed, there are those who think that such DNA could belong to a 'contamination' of Dario Ballardini's assistant.

In addition to this, among those remaining and last sampled by Denise Albani there are other traces on which further investigations will have to be carried out.

So far, only her DNA has been isolated from the mat fragment and swabs taken from her, while nothing could be derived from the hair segment found in the waste.

Still with regard to the evidentiary incident, the stain, so-called hypotenar, present on footprint 33, the now well-known one found on the wall of the stairs to the cellar where the young body was found, argued Luciano Garofano and Luigi Bisogno, Sempio's consultants, is a physiological manifestation of contact due to sweat accumulation, not a trace of blood.

It is Stasi's, instead, the isolated profile on the Estathè straw, one of the rubbish finds never analysed. On the other hand, there is still no plan, with timing and modalities, for what will be the heart of the maxi investigation, on which the prosecutors are betting everything, i.e. the analysis of the two genetic profiles on Chiara's 'nail margins', one of which was attributed to Sempio by a consultancy of the Public Prosecutor's Office, followed by that of Stasi's defence.

It is known that the two forensic experts requested the material, such as the raw data and work sheets, from Prof. De Stefano, who at the time of Stasi's second appeal trial had considered it insufficient.

Privacy Guarantor, stop autopsy images Chiara Poggi

Meanwhile, the Privacy Guarantor adopted, ex officio and as a matter of urgency, a blocking measure against a person who is making available online, for a fee, a video containing images of Chiara Poggi's autopsy. In the same measure, the Authority warned the media and websites that any dissemination of the images would be unlawful as it would be in breach of journalists' rules of ethics and privacy regulations.

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