If Napoleoni was a typical right-wing working class origin police person with racist views (as PC Plod tends to be) then how come she took against fellow Italian Sollecito? What on earth would be her motive to pick on him or to even assume he was involved. (No doubt follows CT about Mignini.)
Here's a radical suggestion: perhaps Sollecito came under suspicion because he behaved extremely suspiciously...?
You'll be surprised to read that I agree with you. That Sollecito and Knox were
SUSPECTS from the start. To the point where the cops organized an all-night interrogation to coerce confessions from them before Knox's mother could arrive.
The issue? The events which provoked suspicion. Can those individual suspicious events be inventoried?
John Follain's book is perhaps the best at outlining what the cops were thinking, because he seemed to have access to their very thoughts - Mignini's very thoughts. The first 1/3 of Follain's book is 'the cops were right to suspect the pair,' and the second part he shifts to how the case against them fell apart at trial.
What were those suspicions? Please note, none of these are indicators of actual suspicion - that they were in investigators' minds is all one really needs to read, to know why Marasca-Bruno had called the original investigation 'amnesiac' and riddled with failures.
As above, the first "suspicious" act was Raffaele bugging Napoleoni about the pooh in Laura's toilet. The second was Raffaele and Knox comforting each other with soft kisses outside the cottage, then later canoodling at the Questura. While perhaps inappropriate - save for the fact that Knox was barely out of her teenage years - none of that is a marker for murder. Knox also bought underwear, her own was then behind crimescene tape.
Knox was taken back to the cottage and when she put on the anti-contamination booties, she swiveled her hips and said 'oop-la', or 'ta-da'. Inside she freaked out when they asked her to help in inventorying the kitchen knives, none of which were missing. All of that was cited as the psychological observations police made to declare them guilty,
even before the forensics came in!
Tellingly, hours and hours of phone taps of their phones revealed nothing suspicious. At the Questura on Nov 5 while waiting for Raffaele, she did yoga, which the tabloid press sluttified as cartwheels.
There. It's one thing to say, "Here's a radical suggestion:
perhaps Sollecito came under suspicion because he behaved extremely suspiciously...?"
It's quite another to inventory those actual behaviours. None of which pointed towards their participation in a murder - one of which (the phone taps) should have pointed the cops away from suspicions.
But it's good to read from you, one of the few remaining guilters, that the cops actually did bring Raffaele into the Questura late on Nov 5 with him as a full-on suspect. With a rotating team of police ready to go at both of them all night if necessary.
With the recording equipment turned off.
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