Garlasco Murder, Carabinieri Blitz at Andrea Sempio's Home: Phones and PCs Seized

Since dawn, the Carabinieri of Milan have been conducting a search at the home of Andrea Sempio in connection with the murder of Chiara Poggi, which occurred on August 13, 2007 in Galrasco in the province of Pavia. The Carabinieri also went to the home of Sempio's parents.

During the search of Sempio's house, telephones and PCs present in the house were seized.

Born in 1988, a great friend of Marco Poggi, Chiara's brother, Sempio was nineteen at the time of the events. Between 2016 and 2017 he had already been at the centre of further investigations, requested by Stasi's lawyers on the DNA found under the nails of the murdered girl , compatible with that of the boy .

Stasi's lawyers , in their attempt to reopen the investigation, highlighted the possible contradiction between the supposed presence of Sempio's DNA under the girl's nails and the fact that he denied having seen her at the time. In the expert report requested by the judges of the second appeal, the genetic trace was defined as too 'damaged' to be considered scientifically valid, while according to Stasi's lawyers there was a full coincidence between the two DNAs compared and in some of the 9 extrapolated findings the DNA was "clean" and easily readable.

The charges were then shelved by the then Pavia prosecutor's office headed by Mario Venditti: "While it is not acceptable but humanly understandable the intent to do everything to defend oneself from a very serious accusation, even after the exhaustion of the possible ordinary levels of judgment, in this case we must nevertheless stop in front of the inconsistency expressed by the Stasi defense and tending to find a different, alternative, guilty party for the killing of Chiara Poggi".