The Court of Assizes of Bergamo rejects the request for new DNA analyzes in the Yara Gambirasio case

The Court of Assizes of Bergamo rejected the request presented by Massimo Bossetti's lawyers, Claudio Salvagni and Paolo Camporini, to carry out new analyzes on the evidence from the murder of Yara Gambirasio, the thirteen-year-old who disappeared on 26 November 2010 and was found murdered on 26 February 2011.

For his death, the bricklayer from Mapello was definitively sentenced to life imprisonment and is locked up in the Bollate prison from where he was video connected to the Bergamo court. The defense lawyers - who have already announced an appeal - contested the methodology of DNA extraction from the '31G20' trace, that of mixed blood of Yara and Bossetti, as well as the key evidence that led to the life sentence, as well as genetic traces, according to the defense, of seminal fluid, found on the victim's jacket and which were not analysed. Present in the courtroom were the prosecutor in charge of the case, Letizia Ruggeri, and the lawyers Enrico Pelillo and Andrea Pezzotta, lawyers for Yara's parents, Maura Panarese and Fulvio Gambirasio.

"We will do everything to ensure that it doesn't become a Garlasco 2", they said as they left the court after opposing the request for new investigations into the murder of the thirteen year old kidnapped and killed in Brembate Sopra, returning from the gym, in the late afternoon of November 26, 2010, and was later found lifeless on February 26, 2011 in a field in Chignolo d'Isola. The Court expressed its opinion within four hours, denying the request to carry out technical-scientific investigations made by the defense of Bossetti, who had been arrested after four years of investigations. The Court of Assizes had so far authorized the viewing of the finds, without allowing new analyses, within the limits established by the Supreme Court in 2024.