by Claudio Sebastiani
Back in Perugia, she, Amanda Knox, then together again, with Raffaele Sollecito, in Gubbio, 11 years after the appeal sentence that acquitted them for the murder of Meredith Kercher, restoring their freedom.
Days of new emotions for both but away from cameras, journalists and photographers who had told their trials, their lives.
It all happened in June, without anyone knowing anything.
Then, now, close to the fifteenth anniversary of the crime, the Mirror has published the photo of the two ex-boyfriends in Gubbio, smiling and hugging each other, the American with a straw hat on her head.
Not a random city for them.
"Just the day we discovered Meredith's case I had to go to Gubbio with Raffaele '' the then Seattle girl told in the book '
I'm coming with you - interviews in prison with Amanda Knox 'written by Rocco Girlanda.
A project now completed.
"I felt mixed emotions, certainly the pleasure of being in good company but also sadness for the tragedy we have suffered".
Sollecito revealed today.
"The initiative was his, but the idea of both of them," he added.
However, that Eugubina was not the only Umbrian stop for Knox, who had already returned to Italy in June 2019 to participate in the Criminal Justice Festival in Modena.
Also in the same month, but this year, she arrived in the area of Lake Trasimeno, with her mother Edda, who had followed practically all of her hearings, her husband Christopher Robinson and her little daughter Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson.
Together they then reached Perugia for a "snack" with his now former defenders, the lawyers Luciano Ghirga and Carlo Dalla Vedova.
With them Don Saulo Scarabattoli, former chaplain of the women's section of the Perugia prison where the American was detained for almost four years.
Finding comfort precisely in the confrontation with the religious,
with whom she maintained the relationship even once she returned to the US.
An afternoon away from the attention of the media during which there was no mention of the trials that led to the final acquittal of Knox and Sollecito.
"I found her well - the lawyer Ghirga explained to ANSA -, calm and affectionate".
Yet Amanda - who has chosen not to return to see the crime house - has appeared "a little changed" to the lawyer Ghirga, the first lawyer to deal with her defense.
"She Before she was more extroverted - she pointed out - while now she is very much a mother".
Other chapters of what seems to be the never-ending story linked to the murder of Meredih Kercher, a young Englishman who came to Perugia to study and was killed with a stab in the throat in the house in via della Pergola where she lived with her Knox.
A crime with only one condemned Rudy Guede, free again after serving the 16 years to which he had been sentenced despite having always proclaimed himself a stranger to the crime.
Which just in recent weeks has given the press a book "The benefit of the doubt, my story".
"I didn't kill Meredith" he reiterated to Corriere della Sera.
"An impossible condemned man. Or perhaps the ideal condemned man: the negro without a family, without covered shoulders, without a penny ..." the definition he gave of himself.
ANSA agency
Prompt, pleasure and sadness in seeing Amanda - Umbria
"I felt mixed emotions".
This is how Raffaele Sollecito tells the Ansa about the meeting with Amanda Knox in Gubbio.
"The initiative was his, but the idea of both" says Sollecito again about the meeting that dates back to June.
(HANDLE)