There would also be a hammer among the objects found in the Tromello canal that firefighters and civil protection dredged, on the orders of the Pavia Prosecutor's Office, in search of the Garlasco murder weapon.

18 years after the murder of Chiara Poggi, the object is considered very interesting by investigators who have reopened the investigation in recent months because a hammer was missing from the villa where the brutal attack on the then 26-year-old girl took place in 2007.

The hammer was seized along with another work tool found.

At the moment, however, investigators are extremely cautious. To establish whether there is a connection between the object and the crime, and whether it is really the weapon used that morning on August 13, in-depth analyses will have to be carried out.

Yesterday the Carabinieri, coordinated by the Pavia prosecutor's office, searched the home of Andrea Sempio, investigated for the third time, of his parents, and also of Mattia Capra and Roberto Freddi, friends of his and Chiara's brother and who are not under investigation. The two then 19-year-olds, together with another boy now a friar, frequented the villa where the crime was committed for which Alberto Stasi was definitively sentenced to 16 years in prison as the sole person responsible.

With the support of the civil protection and firefighters, a ditch was then emptied with a pump, near the house where the grandmother of Chiara's cousins, the twins Stefania and Paola Cappa, once lived.

The research is concentrated there also based on the story given by the superwitness in front of the cameras who claimed to have seen a woman, believed to be Stefania Cappa (never investigated), throw a metal object into the stream. Statements that were cross-checked with those, then retracted with a "I made it all up", by Marco Muschitta, a gas technician who had said he had noticed, on the morning of the murder, a blonde girl moving away from the villa in via Pascoli on a bicycle while holding a fireplace tool in her right hand.

The suspicion of a possible involvement of one of the twins, already raised during the first investigations, has always been discarded. Now instead the name of one of the two is dusted off and linked to that of Sempio, even though the two did not know each other: from the telephone records it appears that between May 1st and August 21st 2007, and therefore in the months before and in the weeks after the crime, there were no incoming or outgoing calls from the girl's cell phone, now a lawyer, with Sempio.

As for the alleged weapon that is believed to have been taken from the Poggi house, Chiara's parents themselves, "astonished by what is happening", explain that "all the fireplace tools are still there", while a missing hammer has never been found. And a hammer, as established by the trial documents known so far, was almost certainly the object used to hit Chiara.

Analysis will now establish whether the object may have any correspondence with the one found in the canal.

(Online Union)

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