Overview

• Armando Palmegiani replaces former RIS chief Luciano Garofano as scientific consultant for Andrea Sempio’s defense in the Garlasco reinvestigation.
• Palmegiani now says the case against Sempio lacks solid elements, despite a September video and prior interviews in which he read the nail DNA as the Y profile of Sempio.
• The defense lawyer, Massimo Lovati, acknowledged the reversal on television before announcing a media blackout for the defense.
• Palmegiani, a recently retired Polizia di Stato veteran with 38 years of service in the Scientific Unit and Rome homicide squad, cites a multidisciplinary mandate covering fingerprints, BPA and investigative leads.
• He joins during the extended tail of the court-ordered evidentiary review, which received a 70-day extension for raw nail DNA analysis, as a RIS Cagliari consultancy remains under seal following a recent site visit.