Overview

• Stasi’s lawyers filed a perizia on July 25 arguing imprint 33 contains a mix of sweat and blood consistent with intense palm contact
• The analysis relied solely on high-resolution photographs and laboratory simulations after the original plaster sample went missing
• Prosecutors in Pavia have asked the Carabinieri’s RACIS unit to independently verify the defense’s conclusions and reexamine the imprint
• Consultants for Chiara Poggi’s family and Andrea Sempio’s defense contest the imprint’s forensic validity, pointing to only five usable minutiae and methodological errors
• Lack of the physical sample prevents fresh biological testing and deepens disputes over whether imprint 33 can definitively link Sempio to the 2007 crime