THE infamous kiss between homicide accused Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito has been recreated for a brand new TV drama — sparking fury amongst locals.
The pair had been pictured in a passionate clinch days after the knife killing of their British flatmate Meredith Kercher, 21, in November 2007.
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The kiss — which occurred as cops searched the home the place Meredith died in Perugia, Italy — led to claims that US scholar Knox, then 20, was a sinister seductress.
She and Italian Sollecito had been later jailed for homicide, acquitted after which convicted once more, earlier than being lastly cleared following an additional attraction.
US agency Hulu is filming an eight-part collection, Blue Moon — seen from the angle of Knox, who’s performed by Grace Van Patten with Giuseppe De Domenico as Sollecito.
The killing of College of Leeds trade scholar Meredith, from Coulsdon, South London, embarrassed Italy on the time.
And the movie crews in Perugia had been greeted by blood-red banners with the phrases “Respect For Meredith”.
Mayor Vittoria Ferdinandi had apologised prematurely to locals in an open letter for permitting filming to happen.
To keep away from additional protests, a reproduction of the homicide flat has been in-built Olevano Romano, 140 miles south.
Kercher household lawyer Francesco Maresca blasted: “Knox doesn’t wish to shut the chapter. This steady stirring is a demonstration of a scarcity of sensitivity.
“She earns cash, obtains visibility on TV after a few years. Plainly Knox doesn’t need folks to overlook about this story and does all she will to maintain it alive.”
At their preliminary trial in 2009, Knox and Sollecito had been discovered responsible of serving to Ivorian drifter Rudy Guede kill Meredith in her room.
Knox was jailed for 26 years and her lover 25. In 2011, a jury acquitted them on attraction, over doubts raised in regards to the forensic proof.
In 2013 an attraction by prosecutors was upheld and a brand new listening to ordered. In January 2014, their responsible verdicts had been reinstated by a court docket in Florence.
However in 2015, Italy’s highest court docket dominated Knox and Sollecito had been harmless, ending the case with the conclusion Guede — freed in 2021 after serving 13 years — acted alone.
The couple break up throughout the lengthy court docket course of and, following her launch from jail, Knox returned to Seattle.
Now 37, she works as an writer and activist, and is a co-producer on Blue Moon.
Sollecito is now a pc engineer.
They’d been relationship for per week after they got here beneath investigation.
Knox has since stated the kiss picture had created “dangerous vibes” — and claimed it was an act of consolation.
She defined: “I felt extremely misplaced.
“I used to be unhappy and making an attempt to grasp, and Raffaele kissed me to console me as our language barrier prevented us from actually having the ability to console one another with phrases.”
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