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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

‘If he didn’t do it, who did?’: fresh doubts over 2007 murder case that gripped Italy

Chiara Poggi smiles to the camera, holding a cocktail
Chiara Poggi was killed at her home in Garlasco, northern Italy, in 2007. Photograph: LaPresse/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Live News.

A suspect in a case that has horrified and perplexed Italy for almost 19 years has been summoned for questioning by prosecutors, in a development that could expose one of the country’s most significant miscarriages of justice and free the person who has spent more than a decade in prison for the crime.

Andrea Sempio is accused of killing Chiara Poggi, a 26-year-old economics graduate, at her home in Garlasco, a small town close to Milan in northern Italy, on 13 August 2007, allegedly because she rejected his sexual advances.

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