The Prosecutor's Office has ordered a psychiatric consultation for Sempio: "His mental capacity and his social dangerousness will be assessed."
The prosecutors' move extends the trial process and postpones the request for indictment by a few months. The clerk's defense team says: "We're surprised by the timing."(Handle)
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With the Pavia Prosecutor's Office's move to order additional investigations, including a psychiatric consultation on the suspect believed to be the killer , it will be a long time, at least until after the summer, to finally conclude the investigation into Andrea Sempio's accusations of murdering Chiara Poggi . This investigation exonerates the only convicted suspect, Alberto Stasi, who is now seeking a review of his trial, which ended 11 years ago with a definitive 16-year sentence.
In a statement, Prosecutor Fabio Napoleone announced that the matter isn't over yet. He also said it will be a few more months before his office, barring any unexpected developments, requests a committal for trial for the 38-year-old who has been at the center of the investigation for over a year.
The prosecutors, in fact, have ordered a consultation to assess "pathological conditions likely to affect Sempio's mental capacity," and for this reason, Professor Roberto Catanesi, a psychiatrist, has been appointed as a technical consultant. This decision, along with others, comes "following the filing by the defendant's defense of multiple technical consultations conducted in the short timeframe" since the notification of the investigation's closure on May 7.
Five reports, plus a brief, were completed in record time by the experts appointed by lawyers Liborio Cataliotti and Angela Taccia to refute the key points of the prosecution's reconstruction, including the well-known palm print 33 and the shoe print. Therefore, "given that the preliminary investigation is still pending (with a deadline set for September 28, 2026)," the Prosecutor's Office explains, "it was deemed appropriate to order further investigations."
Thus, it was decided that "the Public Prosecutor's technical consultants, already appointed, will proceed with specific checks, in order to examine the technical proposals put forward by the defense and evaluate their validity, also in terms of rigor and scientific reliability." These are counter-arguments to the expert reports submitted by the defense of the clerk.
Regarding the psychiatric investigations into the suspect, Professor Catanesi will be "provided with the relevant documentation" for his work on Chiara's brother's friend, "subject to the formulation of the relevant questions" in the coming days. The assignment is aimed not only at verifying his "capacity to understand and decide, with reference to the facts under investigation and the time of their occurrence." It also seeks to ascertain the presence of "any significant disorders or alterations that could impact the assessment of criminal liability, as well as the degree of correlation with the alleged facts," and also the "possible possibility of a condition of social danger."
The defense lawyers said they were "surprised by the timing," because "we expected a comparison of objective data to find the real killer. We didn't expect them to look for the ideal killer, but rather to confront us in a cross-examination on objective evidence."
The fact that the Prosecutor's Office is ordering a consultancy "at this time," Cataliotti explained to 'Dentro la notizia', "makes me think they don't feel strongly about the preliminary findings, that is, the evidence they've gathered, and that they want a portrait of the individual's personality that at least makes plausible what they haven't been able to prove he did. So I see it as a sign of weakness."
At the moment, there's no question of an expert report, which prosecutors would have to request from a judge, but rather of a prosecution investigation based on documentary evidence, such as that used by the Carabinieri's Racis unit, including diaries. Meanwhile, the defense will evaluate whether and when to have Sempio undergo the investigation, which cannot be forced upon him .
The "decisions taken," Napoleone explains, "are aimed at ensuring the most complete, objective, and scientifically sound reconstruction of the affair." Thus, the new supplementary investigations will extend the timeframe, leaving room, in the meantime, for the review of the trial that Stasi is ready to request from the Brescia Court of Appeal.