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The film is based on the real murder of Yara Gambirasio, a 13-year-old Italian girl, and the years-long investigation to find the culprit.
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The brutality of the case and the age of the victim are what make the prosecutor want to move heaven, sea and earth to find answers, and the film shows each detail and steps of an investigation full of complications and pressures, and the most shocking of all is knowing that it is not a fiction. Yara is a dark thriller that shows the difficulty of achieving justice for the victims, but also all the problems that can arise during an investigation that was followed day and night by the media and that arouses the interest of an entire country.
Is Yara a real case?
The film is based on the real murder of Yara Gambirasio, a 13-year-old Italian girl, and the investigation that lasted for years to find the culprit. Yara disappeared on November 26, 2010. She appeared in a video where you could see that she left the Brembate di Sopra sports center in Bergamo, Italy, But he never made it home, which was very close to the place and followed a route he knew very well, so his parents called the police.
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On the left is the actress who plays Yara Gambirasio and on her right, the real Yara.
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The first thing that was done was to organize a massive search, with police, volunteers and family working together to find the girl, but that did not work and 3 months passed until Yara’s body was found, about 10 kilometers from the sports center. of the one who disappeared. The body showed wounds and signs of violence, and the murder became a national obsession.
The investigation found a first suspect, a man from Morocco who was arrested after a translation error in a comment he had made, but was quickly exonerated, because They found traces of DNA on Yara’s clothes. This proved the suspect was not guilty and led police to focus their search on the person who matched what they found.
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Netflix’s new Italian crime drama tells the story that left the entire country in shock.
During the investigation, samples were taken from around 22,000 people and that eventually yielded the name Ester Erzuffi, and shortly after his son Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti43, who became the main suspect and was arrested in January 2014.
Bossetti always maintained his innocence, but was found guilty and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. As can be seen in the film, the conviction was surrounded by doubts and there are those who say that the DNA evidence, which was not mitochondrial DNA, It was inconclusive, and the defendant’s lawyers say they were not given access to key evidence to prepare the defense.
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In 2015, the possibility of DNA testing being in error was even mentioned, but the decision was made not to question the evidence and to force bosetti to carry out the sentence. In November 2019, Bossetti’s defense attorneys requested that the DNA evidence be reviewed again to eliminate any doubt or error, but the request was denied in January 2021.
To date, Yara’s case is considered the most complex investigation in Italian history and the film makes it clear that it is something that is not yet completely finished.