The Garlasco case is more and more, perhaps inevitably, a media processwith all the implications and caution that this entails. It was, Perhaps necessarily, from the beginning, being the murder of a young woman without shadows killed in a heinous way, in the middle of Augustin a placid provincial country.
The judicial affair, controversial from the beginning, due to initial inspections spoiled by errors and inexperiences, who polluted the crime scene, has become further complicated and became even more striking when the Public Prosecutor of Pavia reopened the case, concluded in the after five sentences, two of acquittal (in the first and second degree); the postponement of the Cassation to another Court of Appeal; The sentence on appeal then confirmed in the Court of Cassation, for Alberto Stasi who since then has always been proclaimed innocent and who is serving the sentence of 16 years (abbreviated rite) for voluntary murder.
The reopening of the case
The case was reopened in March 2025 starting from a consultancy-report produced by the defense of Stasi who has never stopped looking for a different solution of the case, including requests for review rejected so far (here the reconstruction of the Stasi trial). The new investigation started without questioning the definitive sentence, but with a hypothesis of a crime competition, evaluating the positive that with Stasi had acted others.
The prosecutor of the Republic of Pavia reopen it, to which the competence on the case passed, after the first investigations had been conducted by the small prosecutor of Vigevano subsequently closed, following the 2012 reform which reorganized the judicial geography by suppressing the small and very small courts. During the investigation by competition, Andrea Semplio, friend of Chiara Poggi’s brother, who attended the victim’s house, was enrolled in the register of suspects.
A complex evidentiary accident, extended to 18 December, is underway in Pavia to evaluate the new non -repeatable tests acquired during the current investigationin the context of which new reliefs were carried out on the material collected by the Ris on the scene of the crime and on the results of the appraisals and advice of the first investigation, and still on finds at the time not analyzed as the garbage of the Poggi house.
The hypothesis of corruption of the magistrate
Precisely in conjunction with a hearing of the evidentiary accident in Pavia, On September 25, 2025, the news was released according to which Mario Venditti ex prosecutor of Pavia, retired since 2023, would be investigated in Bresciaprocurement of cases competent of the cases that concern as suspects or as victims, of the magistrates of the Milan district. The hypothesis against him is serious: corruption in judicial documents.
A file, open for documents transmitted as an act due by the Pavia Prosecutor who during the investigations, would concern clues that could make one think of a possible corruption by passing money from the Semplio family to facilitate an archiviation against Andrea, twice already entered previously in the investigations on Garlasco, and twice filed. Among the elements there would be: an anonymous leaflet found in the semium house in which the name of Venditti appears, near the apps on a sum of money and with a date of little preceding the 2017 archive; finds money movements between the current accounts of the Semplio family then taken from Andrea’s father; An interception of the father in whom we would talk about paying inaccurate people. Elements that, if they are connected to each other, could suggest, the possibility that those money came to the former assistant prosecutor, but it is a hypothesis to be demonstrated.
It will be necessary to conclude the investigations and then, admitted to having found sufficient elements to the indictment with reasonable conviction forecasts, as requested by the Cartobia reform, trying in court who the “those lords there” are that the father of Semve would have spoken to pay in an interception; who wrote that leaflet and its meaning; And then that those lively denarii transited by the semium family to the person investigated and served beyond any reasonable doubt for the hypothesized purpose.
Because many news “bomb” and what we have to expect
Many times during this judicial affair, rumors came out that seemed to represent the definitive turning point on the case and which then have been reduced over the weeks and months. This also happens because a particular condition occurs: the investigation for competition leads to having two defenses, that of Stasi and that of Semve, with diametrically opposed interests in the procedure, each of which interested in emphasizing the visibility of the information useful for its own cause: This contributes to chasing each other on rumors when not escapes of more or less relevant news, accompanied by great hype and the characteristics from time to time of alleged certainty. Beyond the hypothesis of the crime competition, it is clear, in fact, that if ever the responsibility of Semplio should be proven to open the way to the revision of the Stasi case, while where the investigation against the semium did not find adequate feedback this possibility of revision for Stasi would perhaps move away definitively.
All this is accompanied by a third and fourth point of view: that of the civil lawyers (the injured party) of the Poggi family who, convinced of the outcome of the final sentence against Stasi, would like the daughter to finally rest in peace and that, speculating, of the hypothesis of accusation of the prosecutor who investigates the stasis.
To all this is added the complexity of reconstructing the facts after 18 yearswhen people’s memories may have lost authenticity and the traces that can be extracted from the finds can be deteriorated, while in the meantime the initial errors, which there have also been and that the judgments document, have produced irremediable gaps.
This painting would suggest, from here to the conclusions that will come in the act of closing investigations (and that seems far away) to take all indiscretion from “spectators”, however sensational, with due caution.
And even after, If you ever come to a new trial, you must expect to see him take place in the climate of an fiery contrast of partisan consultancy and appraisalsin which the judges will touch the ungrateful task of putting order, without listening to the noise to the background noise. What is the more difficult if a new trial for voluntary murder in the Court of Assizes were to open, where the profession of profession are flanked by the popular jury.
