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Garlasco, where did Andrea Sempio go after finding the library closed

The only suspect in the new lead on the murder of Chiara Poggi reconstructs the morning of the crime on Retequattro

06 March 2026, 20:30

Andrea Sempio

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"I woke up that morning, I went to Vigevano to go to a bookstore, I found it closed, I took a quick stroll around the square and I went back to Garlasco, to my grandmother's. I was there for about half an hour, then I received a call from my mother calling me home for lunch. When they heard my grandmother, she repeated this thing and she repeated several times that she had asked me to stay for lunch, but I didn't want to stay. I mean, she was saying: "But I invited him to stay, but he never eats at my place." (...) That thing stuck in my mind." This was said by Andrea Sempio, the only suspect in connection with the new line of investigation opened in Pavia regarding the murder of Chiara Poggi, interviewed on Quarto Grado, on Retequattro.

Sempio, a friend of Chiara's brother, reconstructed both the morning of the murder (the time of the murder could be extended after the latest expert reports), and the calls made to the villa in Garlasco, in the province of Pavia, where the girl was killed on August 13, 2007.

"It's not that there was a great significance - he then said in response to the various calls made -. At the time there was no WhatsApp or other apps, so what there was were messages and missed calls. In reality, not having the traffic and correspondence of messages in the days before or after, I don't know how much that morning can be considered unusual compared to the rest. Because some said "an intense exchange of messages and missed calls with friends". Yes, but how were the days before? I mean, no one ever thought about that thing."