(Adnkronos) –
Amanda Knox will be in the courtroom of the Florence Court of Assizes of Appeal tomorrow 5 June to defend herself “once again” and hopes to “be able to clear” her “name once and for all from the false accusations” against her. The 36-year-old US citizen will participate in the hearing called to establish whether she is responsible for slander against Patrick Lumumba (in the context of the legal case for the murder of the English student Meredith Kercher) after the Court of Cassation annulled the conviction, referring it to a new panel of judges to assess the feasibility of the crime.
On Instagram, Knox wrote to her followers: “On June 5th I will enter the same courtroom where I was summoned for a crime I did not commit. This time to defend myself again. I hope to erase the false accusations against me once and for all. Wish me luck. Damn the wolf!”
Amanda Knox has already been definitively acquitted, together with Raffaele Sollecito, for the murder of the English student which took place in Perugia on the evening of 1 November 2007. A few days after the crime, in a memorial Knox pointed out to the investigators Lumumba, at the time his employer in a Perugian pub, as the alleged perpetrator of the crime. In the previous hearing on April 10, the Attorney General Ettore Squillace asked to confirm the 3-year prison sentence. 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”.
Amanda Knox wrote the memoir on November 6, 2007 before being transferred to prison because she was also accused of Meredith’s murder. For the murder of the English student, the only person sentenced to 16 years in an abbreviated sentence was Rudy Guede. Patrick Lumumba, however, was definitively exonerated after spending 14 days in prison.
“Amanda Knox is a very intelligent girl, always aware of herself and actually, in my opinion, the motive for the slander lies in the fact that she felt pressured by the investigators and to deflect the investigations she resorts to a classic of these situations: she mentions the name of a false culprit, spends the name of an innocent person knowing he is innocent”, said the lawyer Carlo Pacelli, defender of Patrick Lumumba, civil party in the trial for slander during the hearing in Florence.
The new trial is celebrated after the Supreme Court of Cassation accepted the appeal presented by Knox’s defense against the three-year sentence for slander (already already served with the almost four spent in prison for the crime) against Lumumba on 12 October. later found to be unrelated to the murder. The appeal was based on a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights.
