Before the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Florence, the deputy attorney general asked in the new trial for confirmation of Amanda Knox's three-year prison sentence for having slandered Patrick Lumumba in the early stages of the investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher . The conviction was annulled by the Court of Cassation which postponed the proceedings to assess the feasibility of the crime in relation only to the memoir written by the American on the morning of 6 November 2007.
However, the three years requested have already been served by Knox with almost four spent in prison before being acquitted for the Kercher murder together with her boyfriend at the time Raffaele Sollecito.
Patrick Lumumba, said Attorney General Ettore Squillace in his indictment, after Knox indicated him as the alleged perpetrator of the crime, "was saved" thanks to the "perfect citizen" . That is , the Swiss professor who reported to the police that he had seen him at work in his pub (where Knox also worked) in the center of Perugia at the time the English student was killed. A decisive testimony, complete with a preserved receipt, which led to Lumumba's release and then acquittal.
“A Swiss as precise as the watches they make,” said the attorney general. "He remembered that he had gone to the pub - he added - and what he had taken." According to the attorney general, Knox would have been "aware of Lumumba's innocence" and "aware of giving the investigators the name of a person who had nothing to do with the murder".
For Knox's defenders, Luca Luparia Donati and Carlo Dalla Vedova, Amanda is "a victim". Of the "violation of his rights of defence" and the "media trial". Knox is following the trial from the USA and has reiterated to her lawyers that she has nothing to do with the slander.
The trial was postponed to June 5 for possible replies from the attorney general and therefore from the other parties. Then the sentence.
For the murder of the English student, the only person sentenced to 16 years in an abbreviated sentence was Rudy Guede.
(Unioneonline/D)
