Did Amanda Knox Harm Tourism in Perugia?

I don't think it matters whether she helped or harmed tourism. Personally, I wouldn't visit a country that unjustly locked up Americans. That doesn't mean Amanda Knox harmed the area. It means the Perugia harmed Perugia. She didn't create the culture that existed on her arrival. She was only a victim of it.

Maybe they should be thankful they at least have the groupies.

Kind a hard to take stock in anything about a woman who tries to frame other people for crimes they didn't commit...

Or one....such as yourself, who would actually post such a piece of fluff, stupid story as this to keep the clicks a comin'!

Try it Chelsea.....just try doing a true journalistic attempt at a real story about this case. You know.....one that shows your real abilities at being objective.

I know you can do it.....I think you can.....errrr, never mind!

Wasn't she proven innocent? I'm not sure what you are getting at here.

I don't think a truly innocent person would purposely frame another innocent person over a murder.

And she wasn't proven "innocent" -- her conviction was simply appealed on evident issues by a judge who had never handled a homicide trial before who also ignored very important pieces of evidence. There is another appeal in Rome currently that can go one of three ways. Two of the ways involve her going back to Perugia for an unknown length of time.

LittleMiss.....this writer will never give you the other side. She has bought in on the insanity that a coerced confession should be admissable (the SC ruled otherwise....of course that's just a technicality to people like her.)

She knows the facts....she's just decided they don't fit her narrative.

@calli rasper
It appears you are deep into this nonsense with your claim of a coerced confession. Why don't you explain how rare these coerced confessions are particularly among those who are not young children, mentally retarded, or mentally ill. The brash confident Knox doesn't the profile of one who would falsely confess to murder, and there is no evidence her interview was coercive. Her presence hadn't been requested and she was encouraged to leave.

Blaming someone else when informed her alibi failed....that is entirely a different matter.

http://www.ipt-forensics.com/library/coerced.htm

http://ezinearticles.com/?Critical-Issues-in-Forensic-Psychology:-False-Confessions&id=360569

http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep06/confessions.aspx

Medici....I'm pretty sure these links will make little difference to your rhetoric. We all know, you guilters are super human, infallible individuals. No siree.....you're abilities to project your morality as the standard by which all should be measured is beyond reproach!

The problem though? You're being dishonest Medici. A propogator who conveniently pushes aside truths with intellectually dishonest arguments like........ "and there is no evidence her interview was coercive."

So much for superior morality.....

Calli - you have no more proof that Knox was abused by the police than the police have proof that Knox confessed. So remove the police station from the equation. What is left is still pretty damning; Knox confirmed her confession, in writing and by her own suggestion within 24 hours - she asked for the paper and pen to confirm her statements and describes what she was giving to the police as a gift. She has admitted as much in court. If the police had beaten her to a bloody pulp, she still took the paper and confessed under her own steam. If the police brushed her hair, fed her cake and tea, she still confessed under her own steam. The problem with the Knoxii like yourself is you make big noise about pointless parts of the case and hope that noise will drown out the facts but it doesn't. So quit it with the insults and the pathetic noise for the louder you get the more scared of the Supreme Court you appear.

Megan....Medici threw the interrogation into the subject matter....not myself. I merely pointed out the hypocrisy of his/her statement. If you wish to remove what happened at the police station, then you must remove the information derived by the investigators with it. Personally, I've been advocating this for a while. That interrogation was illegal. What resulted from it was also deemed inadmissable at the murder trial. Yet, people like Medici wish to overlook that little detail and use the illegal interrogation as the standard by which they should be judged. It isn't what the prosecution had to convict with, and yet somehow they did it. Why is it so hard to argue without it for those who concur with the first verdict?

Furthermore, if decrying the power that is bestowed upon individuals who think nothing of abusing that power makes me a "Knoxii" then so be it. You guys get lost in this nonsense that the reason we are here is to defend a pretty young college girl. You couldn't be more wrong. Knox and Sollecito were victims caught up in the perfect storm. This case exposed the underbelly of a much more systemic issue. The flagrant abuse of authority that goes unchecked as a result of complacency by a populace. We all want to believe authority has honor, but to be blind to abuse by virtue of the authority a position entitles one to is negligent. To protect it, unconscionable.

Something rotten happened at that police station. If even 1/10th of what was alleged to have happened took place, why would anyone want to protect the perpetrators? Is it that much of a threat to your convictions to call out abuse when you suspect it? What's wrong with questioning authority when a life is at stake? It could be you next time!

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Who would want to go to a place where the cops and the local prosecutor will charge you with anything at the drop of a hat. Amanda is totally innocent,and the Italian Supreme Court will see that.

Since neither Italian police nor prosecutors can charge anyone with a crime (only an Italian court judge can do so), this comment is redundant.

There is much more to suggest the police were abusive than the Amanda was a liar. First of all, go to Wikipedia, False Confessions - which starts by saying that False Confessions are not very rare! Second, even Lumumba claimed the police were abusive when they first hauled him in. Don't forget too that the prison "doctor" even lied to Amanda about having HIV. That is incredibly inethical. To Megan who said "remove the police station from the equation." You're left with no confession, no forensic evidence, no motive, and the slight complication that a known burglar admitted to having sex with MK, his DNA was found inside of her, everyone said MK wouldn't willingly have been with Guede and this man was also found in recent weeks breaking into properties and brandishing a knife. Also, Amanda never confessed to the murder. She said she was confused and didn't feel that what she wrote was real. And if she was going to accuse someone, why in the world would she accuse Lumumba - the one person who she knew was working that night. The naivete here is astounding.

dani

All the evidence points to abuses carried out by authorities. Every single one of the individuals who believe in the pairs guilt, gloss over it like the evidence of abuse is either a lie or justified. I think we both know that it's crucial to their reasoning to protect the players who carried out this injustice.....no matter how vile their actions.

I wonder how they would react if they were on the receiving end of even a small portion of the abuse that was perpetrated here? Singing a different tune I'm guessing.