Apologies if this appears as something of a hit and run (again) - I still don't have enough time onlineto take part in the discussion.
Arturo de Felici, Chief of Police in Perugia;
Really - how much clearer could he have made it?
Since this statement was made immediately after the wrongful arrest of Patrik Lumumba on Nov. 6 2007 and well before Rudy Guede was placed at the murder scene by forensics, which "facts" OTHER than the involvement of PL could de Felici possibly be referring to?
In other words, how much more obvious could it be that the police had already made PL a suspect before forcing AK to name him?
Something like this, perhaps?;
Cop - "WHO was this text message sent to? WHO!!??"
AK - (squints at the tiny screen being brandished in her face and desperately trys to scan the text) "just let me read it ....."
Cop - *whack* - "WHO!!??"
And it's worth considering this, once again, from the inimitable Edgardo Giobbi;
Giobbi was basically admitting that they had NO EVIDENCE against Amanda or Raffael (or Patrik) when they arrested them, and coming up with b*llsh*t to obfuscate the fact. "We didn't need to rely on other kinds of investigation " indeed - what an utter buffoon.
Absolutely - that one statement by de Felici tells everything about what the police's knowledge (or, to be accurate, falsely-assumed knowledge) was prior to Knox's/Sollecito's questioning on the 5th/6th November.
I believe that the following is almost certain:
1) The police had examined Knox's text messages from the 1st November.
2) They had deduced (incorrectly) that the "see you later" text which she sent to Patrick was in fact a confirmation of a meeting later on the evening of the 1st.
3) They knew that Knox was telling them in her witness interviews that she had stayed in Sollecito's apartment all the evening and night of the 1st.
4) They therefore concluded that Knox was lying about being in Sollecito's apartment that whole evening/night, that the text message proved that lie since it clearly indicated an arrangement to meet with the recipient of the text. I think they also concluded that Sollecito was either covering for Knox or was implicated himself.
5) They therefore set up the interviews on the late evening of the 5th to confront both Sollecito and Knox with these "facts", and - to paraphrase de Felici's own words - to get them (Knox/Sollecito) to confirm what the police thought they (the police) already knew.
6) I don't know whether the police knew prior to the 5th/6th interrogations that the recipient of the message was Lumumba. I suspect they did, owing to their close ties with the mobile phone operators, and also because Knox's phone might very well have had Lumumba's number saved alongside his name in her address book. But it's possible that Lumumba had an anonymously-registered pre-paid SIM card. Either way, I believe that the police were convinced prior to bringing Knox and Sollecito in on the 5th that the recipient of Knox's text message was involved with Knox (and possible also Sollecito) in the murder.
And if all the above is true, then it makes a mockery of the police still treating Knox as merely a witness in her interrogations of the 5th/6th. I can accept that they might not have been sure of Sollecito's involvement at that time - although I think they clearly had a prior agenda to get him to at least admit that Knox could have left his apartment while he was sleeping. However, I believe that by the time Knox arrived in the police HQ on the evening of the 5th, the police had become convinced that a) she was lying about her whereabouts on the 1st; b) she had arranged to meet up with someone; and c) she was almost certainly involved in the murder. And they felt they had solid evidence (in the form of the misinterpreted text message) to back these allegations. If so, she should have been interviewed as a suspect and allowed access to an attorney long before the "confession/accusation" took place.
Surprise, surprise. You ducked the questions that matter to the actual case, and continued in your attempts to attack me personally.
