On 1. November 2007, was murdered in Italy the British student Meredith Kercher. The American Amanda Knox and her then Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of murder, but later acquitted. Against another judgment due to false suspicion, Knox has filed a claim before the European court of human rights and the law. the
Italy has to pay to the American Amanda Knox, convicted only for the murder, and then acquitted, it was, more than 18 000 euros in compensation. The Italian authorities had violated in the interrogation of Knox and several human rights, ruled the European court of human rights (ECtHR) this Thursday in Strasbourg. So it had not been the accusations of the US-American pursued by the police, and under pressure hit, it said. Italy also failed to justify satisfactorily why Knox got in 2007 at a crucial police interrogation with no lawyer.
So that Italy had violated the right to a fair trial and against ill-treatment prohibition, justified the judge their verdict. Knox was accused, after Conviction of Italian judges in 2007, a bar owner, wrongly, of the murder of Meredith Kercher. This judgment remained even after their release from prison. However, Knox made before the ECtHR, claiming that they didn’t know their rights and the procedures.
Rarely has a murder case more international attention than that of the British student Kercher, the on 1. November 2007 in the Umbrian Perugia had been killed. The police found half-naked in a locked room with his throat cut, and 47 stab wounds on the body. Quickly suspected her roommate, the then 20-year-old Knox and her former 23-year-old Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito fell.
Was it a sex crime? A Robbery-Homicide? A dispute that was escalated? Speculation is filled in at the time, the headlines. Especially Knox has been stylized in many of the Reports to the ruthless killer, the “angel with the Eisaugen”. On 4. December 2009 were convicted Knox and Sollecito by an Italian court to 26 and 25 years in prison. It is a pure circumstantial evidence was process, both defendants professed their innocence.
Four years sat for Knox and Sollecito in prison, until they were spoken in 2011 in an appeals process. Knox left immediately for Italy, and went back to the USA. The true offender was condemned in 2008. The police had found at the crime scene fingerprints and DNA-traces of the then 20-year-old Rudy Hermann Guede. The investigators initially assumed that the three accomplices were.
The Italian justice may challenge within three months of the judgment of the ECtHR.
