Interrogated in Pavia in 2025, Stasi spoke about Sempio’s footprint 33 and the anomalies that he was never able to explain
A broken boundary wall. An empty ashtray in a house where no one smoked. And a footprint, number 33, which today bears the name of Andrea Sempio.
These are the details at the center of the interrogation of Alberto Stasi, held before the chief prosecutor of Pavia Fabio Napoleone, dating back to 20 May 2025. Monday 8 June 2026, the television broadcast Fourth Republic published some clips, reporting the words of the man currently convicted of the murder of Chiara Poggi, killed on 13 August 2007 in Garlasco, in via Pascoli. Stasi, in light of the investigation last year and the new elements that have emerged, would be excluded from the scene of the crime: the long-awaited review of the trial could therefore be looming for him.
The anomalies that Stasi never explained
Alberto tells his truth about the tragic day of the murder. When he found his girlfriend’s body, he climbed over the wall surrounding the Poggi house in an already damaged spot. «It was broken, but I didn’t break it. And not even some policemen did it”, he says. And he adds: «Someone may have jumped over. It’s something that has always left me with a question, an anomaly.”
But that’s not the only oddity. There was also some ash in the ashtray. Nevertheless, Stasi didn’t smoke, Chiara didn’t eitherand the parents had been gone for a week. «There’s something that doesn’t add up. But I can’t give myself an answer”, he confesses.
On the famous footprint 33
It is in this context that the prosecutor Napoleone mentions fingerprint 33 to him, the one that the prosecution today attributes to Sempio thanks to 15 points of correspondence. A turning point in the investigations which reopened scenarios left pending in previous years.
Stasi’s reaction is measured, but expresses all his bitterness. «If we had had it before… it’s a personal thing.” Without having it, in fact, he is still serving a 16-year prison sentence.
On the other details of Garlasco
Other elements also emerge during the interrogation. Stasi, for example, claims not to know that they had been circulated intimate videos between him and Chiara. However, he says that Marco Poggi, the victim’s brother, had asked him directly if those videos existed, perhaps because he had heard about them. However, we are talking about the period before his arrest.
On phone calls that Sempio had carried out at the Poggi home in the days following 4 August 2007, those preceding the murder, Stasi says that Chiara had not told him anything. He also hypothesizes that he had something else on his mind at that time.
He then explains about his stay in London and of visit from Chiara: there were no signs of concern, no problems. And regarding their last evening together, he specifies that they both got up from the table: he to go to the bathroom, she to wash her hands.
Garlasco has remained over the years, between reopenings of investigations and dismissals, the fulcrum of Italian judicial news. Stasi’s conviction is final, but the new investigations into Sempio and the details that continue to emerge fuel questions that have remained unanswered all these years. Among these, suspended in time, there are also the anomalies of the wall and the ashtray.
