World
November 3, 2024 19:40
rome - Amanda Knox, who was wrongfully convicted of murder, is back in Perugia to produce a TV series based on her life. The series will focus on Knox's experience rather than the actual murder victim, Meredith Kercher.
Seventeen years after a notorious murder case that shook the world, Amanda Knox has returned to Perugia to work on a TV series about her own story. The production is being led by Knox herself, along with another well-known American, Monica Lewinsky, former aide to President Bill Clinton.
The television series will not revolve around the real victim of the murder, Meredith Kercher, but will instead delve into the life of Amanda Knox. Hulu, owned by Disney, has announced that the eight-part series is based on the 'true story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted of murder.' Knox was just twenty years old when her British roommate was murdered on November 1, 2007.
The American student was initially found guilty by the court and sentenced along with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. Rudy Guede, an African man, was also convicted. Knox and Sollecito spent four years in prison but were ultimately acquitted in 2015 by the Supreme Court, following a previous acquittal in 2011 and then a new conviction in 2014.
Following her 2011 acquittal, Amanda Knox immediately left Perugia for the United States with her parents. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Italian state must pay Knox 18,000 euros compensation. She had been interrogated for hours by various Italian police officers without access to an interpreter or a lawyer. Her Italian language skills were still rudimentary at the time. 'I was questioned without a lawyer for 53 hours, spread over five days, in a language I might have mastered as a ten-year-old. When I told the police that I had no idea who had killed Meredith, I was slapped on the back of my head and told to 'Remember!'' she later wrote on her blog.
Today, Amanda Knox is married, a mother of two, working as a journalist, and has written a book about the entire ordeal. The legal proceedings surrounding the case garnered significant international attention, particularly from British and American media outlets. Opinions on Knox's guilt or innocence were deeply divided. Numerous books, documentaries, and even two films have been made about her.
The lawyer representing Meredith Kercher's family is critical of Knox's decision to produce a TV series about the crime. 'On one hand, Amanda says that the trial caused her a lot of suffering, but on the other hand, she wants to profit from it: fame and money. In short, she continues to profit from it. This time, she doesn't even hesitate to do it in Perugia, one of the least appropriate places to return to seventeen years after Meredith's murder,' said attorney Francesco Maresca. 'It is clear that Knox is only interested in the profit she can make from the case, while it would be more appropriate to observe silence.'