(ANSA) - PERUGIA, 02 NOV - "I will never forget Meredith's face, he was sweet and seemed serene": at the age of 14 after the murder of Meredith Kercher, for Giuliano Mignini, the magistrate who coordinated the investigation into the English student killed in Perugia (in night between 1st and 2nd November 2007), his face remains on the scene of the crime the memory that does not erase. He says this in speaking with ANSA about the anniversary of the crime, "a day that remains very sad for me", he stresses.
Mignini, a 71-year-old magistrate from Perugia, has been retired since April 2020 and now plays the role of advisor to the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission. He directed some of the investigations on the main news events in the Umbrian capital.
"Beyond the so much blood that was in the room where she was killed - he continues - I was struck by her expression, different from that of many other corpses I have seen. Eraserena". "Meredith Kercher - says the magistrate - I knew her from the investigative documents. She was a young girl with a particular, traditional education, and was very attached to her family. When she was killed she was waiting to return home for Christmas. her family and I remember her particularly sweet mother, a woman who spoke with her gestures. "
Mignini explains that he was "humanly touched" by this investigation more than by others.
"On the juridical level - he affirms - an open wound remains because I am convinced that justice has not been done completely. I respect the sentence of the Cassation (which declared Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox definitively unrelated to the murder - ed) but the conflict remains with that of another section that instead had annulled the acquittal by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Perugia. However - concludes Mignini - I have always done everything with absolute honesty ".
The only one sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of Kercher is Rudy Guede, currently in the care of social services.
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