Overview

• The Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali adopted an urgent ex officio measure to block an individual offering a video of Chiara Poggi’s 2007 autopsy for sale online.
• The regulator warned that any diffusion of the footage would violate journalistic deontological rules and privacy law and reserved the right to impose further sanctions.
• Investigators from the Procura di Pavia refuted the existence of an autopsy video, stating that only still photographs are held in the case files and no film was ever made.
• Preliminary forensic analysis of a newly examined oral swab detected two male DNA profiles—one unknown and one traced to contamination by a medical examiner’s assistant—neither of which matches suspect Andrea Sempio or convicted Alberto Stasi.
• A repeat analysis of the oral swab has been scheduled to confirm the preliminary DNA findings and inform the ongoing re-examination of the 2007 murder investigation.