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 have 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 befell as cops searched the home the place Meredith died in Perugia, Italy — led to claims that US pupil Knox, then 20, was a sinister seductress.
She and Italian Sollecito have been later jailed for homicide, acquitted after which convicted once more, earlier than being lastly cleared following an extra attraction.
US agency Hulu is filming an eight-part collection, Blue Moon — seen from the attitude of Knox, who’s performed by Grace Van Patten with Giuseppe De Domenico as Sollecito.
The killing of College of Leeds change pupil Meredith, from Coulsdon, South London, embarrassed Italy on the time.
And the film crews in Perugia have 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 duplicate of the homicide flat has been in-built Olevano Romano, 140 miles south.
Kercher household lawyer Francesco Maresca blasted: “Knox doesn’t need to shut the chapter. This steady stirring is a demonstration of a scarcity of sensitivity.
“She earns money, obtains visibility on TV after a few years. It appears that evidently Knox doesn’t need folks to overlook about this story and does all she will be able to to maintain it alive.”
At their preliminary trial in 2009, Knox and Sollecito have 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 concerning the forensic proof.
In 2013 an attraction by prosecutors was upheld and a brand new listening to ordered. In January 2014, their responsible verdicts have been reinstated by a court in Florence.
However in 2015, Italy’s highest court docket dominated Oknox and Sollecito were innocent, ending the case with the conclusion Guede — freed in 2021 after serving 13 years — acted alone.
The couple break up in the course of 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 dating for per week once they got here underneath investigation.
Knox has since stated the kiss picture had created “unhealthy 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 know, 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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