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Kaosium,
Here's Rita Ficarra's account of Amanda cracking, in testimony before the court:
"In the police station was being questioned by Raffaele Sollecito - said the inspector -. At one point, my colleagues told me that Sollecito was saying different things and no longer providing 'an excuse to Amanda. They told me then to hear the girl and ask her what she had done the evening November 1. Amanda was initially surprised. We asked her to show us his cell phone and she did it spontaneously. We found an outgoing message, around 20, 20.30 of November 1, sent to Lumumba. when I showed the text message asking who was this person, for a moment and 'rimsta at him, after which' and 'burst into tears, put his hands on his head and accused him of being the perpetrator of the crime ". "E '... and he' ... and he 'was to kill him," he said then, referring to Amanda Patrick Lumumba.(AGI, February 28, 2009 / Googlized)
Ficarra doesn't provide the time of day for Amanda's accusation....but the he did it accusation don't sound like the result of a three hour interrogation. Ten minutes?
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Yes, that's what Napoleoni, Ficarra and Zugarini said, I don't find it the slightest bit believable in any respect. This friendly little 'chick chat' doesn't square with the
later 'opportunity fire'
calunnia charge on Amanda which revealed there were
twelve cops eligible, (four never filed apparently) nor with Giobbi's testimony in which he reveals with detailed associated reasons that
he ordered both Amanda and Raffaele brought in for questioning so he could 'study their reactions' together or somesuch.
Also, if it happened the way they said, the idea that they'd arrest her, Raffaele and Patrick because she breaks down in tears and says something silly that a 'B-movie' writer wouldn't pen, and never offers any details, is ludicrous. As is the idea they'd parade through town with sirens blaring and lights flashing and announce 'case closed.' They testified in court they'd never even thought of Patrick in connection to the case, it came as a total surprise, yet two days later they'd offer 'evidence' of him being involved before Matteini regarding his phone records--which curiously is what they're talking to Amanda about in every version of the story--including hers.
As for the time, the three of them testified it was shortly after Raffaele 'dropped' her alibi, and all three come across Amanda quite by accident, they all see Amanda doing a 'cartwheel' which is interesting being as she was on the phone with Filomena when they approached, and in each story I don't believe they refer to the others being there. Amanda speaks her excruciating line--it actually looks better through Google Translate because it's mostly gobbled up it appears--which is of course why it isn't taped.
Then Napoleoni 'forgets' to turn on the other camera which is supposedly for the rest of the 'interview' which begins at 3:30 AM, which means nearly five hours went by and they only accounted for this little 'ten minute' interval. The rest of the time they're waiting for the interpreter to arrive, or getting her officially declared a suspect, and
lots of tea and cookies. They made a special point of how they stuffed her with cupcakes, even though the cafeteria wouldn't open until 5 AM...
They also each were sure to regale the court with
cartwheels, which as recently revealed in one of Dan-O's posts ( I think) began with the head man himself right before their testimony. This is the first mention of cartwheels, and I bring it up not because Amanda wasn't doing exercises in the hall--she admitted to that--but because it suggests if they can coordinate their cartwheels story with one another, they can collude in other testimony as well, which I'm virtually certain they did.
If we are to accept the interrogation as this impromptu break-down of Amanda for no reason spitting out that silly line 'It's him...he's the
murderer! or somesuch as rendered in English, we have to dismiss the testimony, evidence and common sense suggestions to the idea this was a planned event. There are
twelve extra cops on duty on a weeknight, they insist Raffaele come in the middle of the night, and they offer three excuses as to why it wasn't taped. The two above; 'no chance it was unexpected' and then the later 'interview' leading to the 5:45 statement 'I forgot' and then finally as to why the reading and signing of the 5:45 statement 'we were too busy as we had to arrest Patrick Lumumba' or thereabouts as Mignini revealed.
Fine, I hate to break it to you, but I strongly suspect the cops
lied through their teeth about all of this. None of it makes any sense for a functioning police department, that they'd
really go out and arrest Patrick on the basis of this little break-down by a traumatized girl who could offer no real details or even coherence to her 'confession?' They should have had her lie down and summoned a doctor, and perhaps quietly checked out Patrick's story if they were really so unaware of his existence at this point in the investigation, first thing they did from the account I read having taken from the girls' lists of all men associated with Meredith.
Now, however, if they thought they had 'evidence' Patrick wasn't at his bar due to his changing his SIMS card, plus what they thought was a 'woolly black hair' in Meredith's hands that might have been Patrick's, as well as the CCTV camera showing someone they 'hypothesized' might be the killer or involved with them, plus they knew Amanda had communicated with Patrick and said something that comes across as a definite future meeting that night, and they stuck it to Raffaele and he told them what they wanted to hear through confusion or whatever, then I could see them putting the screws to Amanda and freaking her out. She gives them just enough, as they're
sure of the rest, which explains the exuberant and triumphant behavior as they honestly believed they'd captured their murderers and solved the case, thus had every reason to be proud.
Except they didn't, which is why they had to lie through their teeth in court and misdirect with endless repetitions of 'cartwheels' which they managed to do with the English-speaking press from what I've seen. Amanda's note, written directly after her arrest, refutes everything they said in court, and she wrote that to
them in an attempt to explain as a 'gift' being she'd noticed they weren't really listening to her. To what end in those circumstances would she invent an entirely untrue story that
just so happens to be indicative of a phenomena she was quite likely unaware of? Had she been aware it's quite probable she wouldn't have succumbed, and the girl who wrote that note strikes me as entirely too confused to be dissembling, nor should she want to, considering the only audience she could imagine would be receiving it.
