Overview
- Prosecutors in Pavia have concluded a reopened inquiry and entered Andrea Sempio as the only person under investigation in the 2007 killing of Chiara Poggi.
- Sempio’s lawyers say six independent expert reports — covering medical timing of death, shoe‑imprint and fingerprint analysis, blood‑trace testing and audio cleaning — will be filed within the statutory 20‑day window to contest the case.
- Stefania Cappa, a cousin of the victim, lodged a criminal complaint in Milan alleging instigation to defame and calumniate against a TV reporter, a lawyer linked to Alberto Stasi and an ex‑carabinieri marshal, attaching private‑investigation material and recorded conversations.
- Andrea’s parents have publicly given him an alibi for the morning of the murder while his father Giuseppe — who repeated that claim on national TV — is separately under investigation in Brescia for alleged corruption tied to a note found at the family home.
- The new inquiry raises fresh questions about the final 2015 conviction of Alberto Stasi but no formal judicial review of Stasi’s sentence has been opened and Italian law requires substantially new, incompatible evidence to reopen a definitive verdict.