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[quote=Anonymous]I lived in Italy around the time Knox was held. I know many expats there, many of them living in smaller, regional towns or student cities (so not just in expat enclaves such as Trastevere). Some of my friends have lived there for 20+ years. Based on my personal observations and what I've been told by these expats while living in Italy as a young woman, I can see how certain biases played heavily into Knox being named a suspect in Kercher's murder.

1. There is a strong mistrust of foreigners among the Italian population. 
2.  Italian culture is rather misogynistic with a strong madonna-whore complex. Foreign women, especially young American and English women studying in Italy, are viewed by the general Italian public as promiscuous. 
3. The Italian public has come to expect corruption and scandal (looking at their government, it's not hard to see why). Overall they are much more inclined to buy into scandalous, sensationalist conspiracy theories.

There are many great aspects to Italian culture. But the above observations about Italian culture have been echoed by everyone I know who has spent time there. Look at how the media portrayed an American woman who was killed recently in Florence: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/09/ashley-olsens-family-defend-murdered-artists-character-from-offensive-media
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/europe/ashley-olsen-family-letter/
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/02/10/olsen.family.letter.pdf

When you combined the tendency to mistrust foreigners, the bias against foreign women, conflicting attitudes about female sexuality, and the propensity to buy into scandalous theories, it's easy to see how the ridiculous theory of a ritualistic sexual/satanic orgy killing by "Foxy Knoxy" arose. Knox was further indicted by the press when she didn't grieve appropriately.

It's unforgivable that she was interrogated at length without an interpreter or lawyer present. It's unfortunate that she was smoking marijuana the night of the murder and so after 24 hours of heavy interrogation and the police insisting that they knew she had left Sollecito's apartment, she either became worn down, second-guessed herself because she had been high, or falsely conceded that point. The interrogators insisted she must have left her boyfriend's apartment that night based simply on a text she sent to her boss saying "Ci vediamo dopo" (I'll see you later), which in English is an open-ended phrase, but in Italian denotes an intent to meet in a short time frame. She had only been in Italy for 5 weeks and obviously was not fluent in Italian. It's an easy mistake to make and by no means proves she ever left Sollecito's apartment.

Rudy Guede had DNA linking him to the scene and was found guilty. I can't believe they are still pursuing Knox without new evidence and so many mistakes during in the investigation.

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