Movie crews had been met with banners studying “Rispetto per Meredith” (“Respect for Meredith”) as they arrived to start out taking pictures the eight-part collection.
The Mayor of Perugia, the city the place British trade scholar Meredith Kercher was murdered in 2007, has issued an apology to locals, indignant at a brand new TV collection being filmed within the Umbrian capital.
“I apologise to those that felt betrayed by this selection”, stated Vittoria Ferdinandi in an open letter.
The eight-part collection, titled ‘Blue Moon’, will chronicle the sixteen-year battle led by Amanda Knox to clear her title.
Knox, together with Meredith Kercher’s boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, had been each convicted of Kercher’s homicide twice. The pair spent 4 years in jail earlier than their launch in 2011 and official acquittal in 2015.
Kercher’s household in opposition to the collection
The filming of the collection coincides with the 17-year anniversary of Kercher’s loss of life. Her household acknowledged that they discovered it “obscure” how the collection served any objective.
Knox has reportedly earned over €4.2m from her memoir, has taken half in a Netflix documentary, in addition to being the topic of quite a few books and movies.
Since Kercher’s homicide made international headlines virtually 20 years in the past, the residents of the historic Italian city of Perugia have been preventing to reclaim its fame.
Upon arrival, movie crews had been met with bans studying “Rispetto per Meredith” (“Respect for Meredith”), displayed throughout town final week.
“Town of Meredith Kercher’s homicide”
In a video shared on Fb, Margherita Scoccia, a former councillor acknowledged: “For too lengthy, Perugia was sadly well-known on the earth as town of Meredith Kercher’s homicide.”
“Is it proper that our neighborhood is related to such a horrible crime once more?”, she added.
Amanda Knox is among the collection’ co-producers, together with Monica Lewinsky, who many bear in mind for her affair with former US president Invoice Clinton within the Nineteen Nineties.
Perugia’s Mayor, Vittoria Ferdinandi acknowledged: “We couldn’t block the manufacturing, which might have taken place anyway”, explaining that the scenes “would have been filmed in another city in our area”.
Ferdinandi claimed filming in Perugia would permit the city to retain some oversight no the collection: “We felt that having the scenes filmed right here would have been a larger component of assure and management…”.
“[I] overpassed the individuals, the ache alive of their flesh whereas making the choice,” added Ferdinandi.
In June, an Italian courtroom upheld a slander conviction in opposition to Knox, for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba, who owned a bar in Perugia, of murdering Kercher. Rudy Guede stays the one individual to have been definitively convicted of the homicide. He was launched from jail in November 2021 after serving 13 years of his 16-year sentence.
‘Blue Moon’ is about to air on Hulu. No premiere date has but been given.
