Francesca Nanni, Milan’s general prosecutor, met for almost an hour with the chief prosecutor of Pavia, Fabio Napoleone, who is coordinating the new investigations. The case involving Andrea Sempio, a friend of Chiara’s brother, under investigation for the murder is now close to being closed
It is the first step – if not formal, almost – of what will be the path to the possible review of the trial which saw Alberto Stasi convicted definitively at 16 years old of prison for the murder of Chiara Poggi. And that could rehabilitate the image of what was nicknamed at the time “the blond with the icy eyes”. A request that could be presented to the competent Court of Appeal, that of Bresciaby the lawyers of the victim’s then boyfriend. Or, more likely, directly from the general prosecutor of Milan, Francesca Nanni. Who yesterday he met for almost an hour the chief prosecutor of Pavia, Fabio Napoleone, who is coordinating the new investigations by the Carabinieri of the Milan Investigative Unit on the Garlasco mystery which they see at the center Andrea Sempio.
And it is this path that the two – together with the general advocate, Lucilla Tontodonati – would have talked about during the meeting at the courthouse. Why the case involving Andrea Sempio, a friend of Chiara’s brother, under investigation for the murder is now close to being closed. It is now a matter of weeks for notification and filing. And in the reconstruction made in this year of investigations, the investigators would not have collected elements that placed Stasi, on that 13 August almost 19 years ago, at the crime scene. From the time of death, to prints (of hands and shoes), to biological traces: there would be several points in contrast with those reported in the sentences which led to the conviction of the then Bocconi graduate student. That in the new investigative hypothesis he would therefore return to being the “discoverer” of the corpse, and no longer the murderer.
The review will proceed in parallel to Sempio’s probable trial path. Once the investigation by the Pavia magistrates has been concluded, the documents will be sent to the general prosecutor’s office, which will be responsible for evaluating whether to promote a review of the Stasi trial. However, it will not be a “quick or easy” road, the Attorney General clarified yesterday, at the end of the visit of the prosecutor Napoleon, because “we obviously have to study the papers first”. «In the next few weeks we will receive initial information, we will evaluate whether to request further documents and, if necessary, we will have to study these documents. In the meantime – he added – we cannot make any declaration, we cannot go unbalanced in any way”.
If a request for review will be made, once the case has been heard, the Court of Appeal of Brescia will then have to examine the admissibility of the petition against the convictionand only subsequently will it be possible to schedule a hearing in the courtroom, for the admission of new evidence, and for discussion.
It wouldn’t be the first time for Francesca Nanni. When she held the same position in Cagliari, before her arrival in Milan, it was she who initiated the review of the trial for the Sinnai massacre of 8 January 1991. Which ended on 26 January 2024 with the acquittal – “for not having committed the crime – of Sardinian shepherd Beniamino Zuncheddu, until then locked up in prison for 32 years. The man had in fact been definitively sentenced to life imprisonment for three murders and one attempted murder.
