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"They want me in jail. But I will be a fugitive." These were the wordsa few hours before the verdict of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Florence for the murder of Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox pronounced in an interview via Skype on the New York Times. Amanda, in front of the camera, is confident and determined. "Nothing can erase the experience of being unjustly imprisoned, and for this reason I will never go back to Italy," continued the young man from in Seattle that, waiting for the reading of the verdict, could not resist the temptation to change their look making even accompany to the hairdresser.
But the American student that for years has convinced an entire nation of his innocence, in recent months has begun to lose credibility among American public opinion. For the U.S. media, in fact, the granitic image of the girl wrongly accused began to crumble.
Many newspapers and television, which for years had defended describing it as a "victim" of the Italian judicial system, they began to speak of her as an evil person, as a perfect assassin.
A definition that the girl with the chameleonic look , however, has never accepted. "I'm not so - reiterates in the interview at the NY Times - are different from how has painted." But now there is a judgment, the process "bis", that the convict her to 28 years and six months in prison.
And 'now, however, in view of his statements and some of historical precedents between Italy and the U.S. starting questions: Amanda Knox serve the sentence in Italian prison facilities? The Italian judiciary will be able to bring in the Belpaese, or how they think the majority of Italians, the beautiful American student will be able to "get away"?
Just the execution of the sentence, the story of Amanda Knox will be destined to create controversy and maybe even diplomatic friction between our country and the U.S., as has already happened in the past for the other two cases: the massacre of Cermis, and murder of the agent of SISMI, the Italian intelligence services, Nicola Calipari.
In both cases, the diplomats of the two countries have had to 'work' to recognize the faults of American citizens. And in the case of Cermis the four officers responsible for the deaths of 20 people, have never claimed a trial in Italian territory, a country where the massacre had taken place.
Slaughter of Cermis: February 3, 1998 a military aircraft Grumman EA-6B Prowler U.S. cut the cable of the Cermis cable car in Val di Fiemme Cavalese and causes the death of 20 people. The plane took off from Aviano Air Base at 14:36; During a training flight at low altitude, cut off the ropes of the lower trunk of the Cermis cable car. The cabin, in which there were twenty people, fell from a height of about 150 meters and crashed to the ground after a flight time of 7 seconds. The aircraft, damaged the wing and tail, however, was able to return to base. Despite the presence of witnesses, the sequence of events appeared not immediately clear.
Only the readiness of judges of Trentino, who immediately seized the plane indicted in Aviano base, allowed to clarify the responsibilities. In fact, the plane was ready to be disassembled and repaired. The Italian prosecutors demanded to process the four marines in Italy, but the judge for preliminary investigations of Trent held that, under the Convention of London of 19 June 1951 on the status of military NATO should recognize the jurisdiction over the case to the military justice U.S.. The incident created a climate of high tension between the U.S. and Italian. The President of the United States of America Bill Clinton apologized for the incident just a few days later, and promised the victims' families, monetary compensation. After a few weeks the Prime Minister, Romano Prodi at the time along with a representative of the Italian government, flew in U.S.
