"Meredith was brutally killed, far from home and her family, who stood out for their absolute respect for Italian justice and for the great dignity with which they bore their pain, did not get justice and will never get it again. And this is the thought that continually haunts me": this is written by the now retired magistrate Giuliano Mignini in the book dedicated to the "Meredith Kercher case. A judicial affair between two continents", of which he was prosecutor.
Published by Morlacchi publisher.
In over 300 pages, which also speak of "Lake Trasimeno and the 'monsters' of Florence", Mignini retraces the story, focusing on acts and people.
Like Amanda Knox, acquitted of the crime but a central character in the story.
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"I don't change my mind about the prosecution system", however, the former prosecutor Mignini underlines when speaking with ANSA.
"What happened in this process? I have my answer but I'll leave it to the readers," she writes in the book.
Of Meredith Kercher, Mignini remembers in particular eyes and expression: "the girl, after the terrible agony that she must have experienced, had as it were recomposed her expression that appeared almost serene and of great sweetness".
She reveals the "outstretched hand of Amanda" Knox, the meeting request of April 2019 refused as she was still in the judiciary (they then met last June).
For the former prosecutor Rudy Guede, the only one convicted and now freed after the end of his sentence, "he was the 'crock pot' of the three".
Of Raffaele Sollecito, acquitted, Mignini speaks as "the most enigmatic, indecipherable character who had suffered the most in his life", "remained stubbornly hostile to investigations and investigators".
Then there is Amanda Knox, from Seattle, "presented, at the beginning of the investigation, at least without my decisive opposition, as a sort of 'circe' and 'insatiable' seductress or 'devil' or 'witch', with her curious nickname of 'Foxy Knoxy'".
"The idea I have of the girl from Seattle is that she was and she is, instead, a very normal girl from the far West of the United States, very outgoing and extremely curious", writes Mignini.