A witness calls into question the Vigevano parking ticket, considered Andrea Sempio’s alibi for years. The new revelations could reopen a crucial chapter in the investigation into the murder of Chiara Poggi.
There’s a new name in the file Garlasco crimeand his testimony risks rewriting an important part of history. The investigators of Pavia Prosecutor’s Office they would in fact have listened to a person “informed of the facts” who would have the version on Andrea Sempio’s receipt was deniedthe friend of Chiara Poggi’s brother who recently returned to the center of the investigation.
According to what emerged, the witness provided elements capable of calling into question the authenticity of the Vigevano parking ticketdated August 13, 2007the same day as the murder. That note – handed over to the police on October 4, 2008over a year after the events – had long been considered decisive evidence in favor of Sempio, contributing to the2017 filing signed by the investigating judge Fabio Lambertucci.
The alibi that no longer holds
In the interrogation of 10 February 2017 before the prosecutors Mario Venditti And Giulia PezzinoSempio had said that the receipt had been found by his parents in his car “a few days after the event” and then stored “for safety”. Only during the second hearing, he added, would the carabinieri ask him to retrieve it and take it to the barracks.
But the magistrates are now focusing precisely on that detail. The document certifying the delivery of the ticket, drawn up in 2008, reports no interruption of the interrogationa circumstance deemed “anomalous” by investigators. Furthermore, a recent episode cast further shadows: Sempio’s mother felt ill during an audition in Milan, while answering questions about the ticket and a Vigevano firefighter with whom he was in contact at the time of the events.
The shadows on the alibi and the “superwitness”
In recent months too Fabrizio Gallolawyer of Sempio’s lawyer, Massimo Lovatihad raised doubts publicly. Interviewed by the La7 program Unknownhad stated: «If he continues to use that receipt, he hits a wall: the receipt is fake. Anyone who is innocent does not need to invent an alibi.”
Now the new testimony would appear confirm this hypothesis. For the magistrates, in fact, what the witness reported would represent a piece capable of definitively dismantle the alibi di Sempio and reopen the discussion on one of the most controversial pieces of evidence in the Garlasco case.
The feeling among investigators is that the receipt affair — for years considered a marginal detail — can become the key to give a twist to a mystery which, after eighteen years, continues to weigh like a boulder on Vigevano and the whole of Italy.
