
The request for indictment cites 24 points of evidence: records, consultations, testimonies and wiretaps
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Chiara Poggi was killed 19 years ago in Garlasco. Andrea Sempio is under investigation for aggravated murder. The Pavia prosecutors requested the trial ten days ago. The preliminary hearing is set for February 25th before the preliminary hearing judge Luigi Riganti.
The Pavia prosecutors who ten days ago requested the trial of Andrea Sempio for the aggravated murder of Chiara Poggi 19 years ago in Garlasco indicate all the "sources of evidence" acquired in the file, summarized in 24 points. Thus, in the request for indictment, records, consultations, information and testimonies from the investigation are cited.
In the first point there are the records of the Garlasco telephone cell from 13 August 2007, those of the landline number of the Poggi house and the old hearings of Chiara's family and her brother's friends. In the second point, other old papers from the previous investigations into Sempio, including printouts, wiretaps and the 2017 interrogation. Then, eight consultations listed one by one: the one on bloodstains, the medico-legal one by Cristina Cattaneo, another signed by the anatomopathologist with professor Biagio Leone, the dactyloscopic ones on the footprints, another "technical-shoemaker" useful for the well-known shoe print, the forensic genetic one on the DNA on the nails. And again a computer report and another in 3D. Then, a series of notes from the Racis and the RIS of the Carabinieri, also on handheld trace 33, to which are added the Albani report on the DNA and also the fingerprint test carried out in the evidentiary incident, as well as the report on the "latent fingerprints".
The prosecutors also give an account of the recent testimonies, those of Marco Poggi, three between 2025 and 2026, the last of his friends from the company to which Sempio also belonged, and then again the minutes on the chapter of the Ris' actions in 2007.
Then, we move from the analysis of the IT devices to the notebooks and notes seized from the clerk and his parents to close with the wiretaps against Sempio and his family, but also the Poggi family, with an information from the Carabinieri and with "any other document contained in the investigation file".
In the notice setting the preliminary hearing for February 25, the preliminary hearing judge Luigi Riganti also states with a "note" that "participation in the hearing of the offended parties", i.e. Chiara's parents and brother and the two uncles, "is optional".
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The preliminary hearing judge Luigi Riganti will decide on the indictment at the preliminary hearing on February 25th.
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