Amanda Knox is urged to 'shut up' by locals in Perugia as filming begins there for new drama about Meredith Kercher's murder she is co-producing

Amanda Knox has been urged to 'shut up' by locals successful Perugia arsenic filming begins determination for a caller play astir Meredith Kercher's execution which she is co-producing. 

Kercher was stabbed to decease successful the flat she shared with Knox portion she was studying successful Perugia successful 2007 connected speech from the University of Leeds. 

Knox was recovered blameworthy of fatally stabbing Kercher and jailed but was acquitted of the execution for the 2nd clip successful 2015, aft she had already served 4 years of her sentence.

Following a 2011 movie for US television, her 2013 memoir, Waiting to beryllium Heard, and a 2016 Netflix documentary, Knox is present co-producing an eight-part bid astir her way to freedom.

When the crews for Disney-owned Hulu arrived successful Perugia, they were met with a banner emblazoned with 'Rispetto per Meredith' (respect for Meredith).

The banner was created by nonmigratory Walter Cardinali, who said helium was furious that Kercher was being forgotten. 'Perugia was incapable to support Meredith, but we tin support her memory,' helium told the Times.

'I don't similar them filming here. It's clip she unopen up,' Angelo Messino, 32, added. 

Messino is the caller manager of The Zoo bar, formerly Le Chic, wherever Knox worked portion surviving successful Perugia. The barroom is adjacent to reopening aft being closed since the murder.

The metropolis of Perugia nestled successful the scenic portion of Umbria has agelong attempted to determination connected from the present infamous execution case.

Unsurprisingly, residents are present aggravated that their metropolis is erstwhile again associated with the transgression arsenic movie crews person taken implicit the town, which has adjacent held disconnected connected putting up their Christmas lights to not interfere with filming. 

Local councillor Margherita Scoccia has criticised the Perugian authorities for allowing filming successful the municipality successful the archetypal place. 

She said: 'Seventeen years ago, Perugia was shocked by the execution of Meredith Kercher, which sadly made america celebrated passim the world.'

Following Kercher's murder, section universities saw a autumn successful enrolment arsenic respective bars, restaurants and clubs had to unopen owed to a deficiency of tourists. 

'Today that calamity is being recalled and sensationalised successful a TV bid produced by the American, a fig who exists successful nationalist representation exclusively for her engagement successful that transgression and the sensational acquittal,' Scoccia said.

'It conscionable brings backmost the horrible past,' 1 furniture and meal proprietor who remembers the calamity said this week. 'It's excessively macabre.'

The politician of Perugia - Vittorria Ferdinandi - has since issued an apology to locals successful an unfastened missive for allowing the filming to instrumentality place. 

According to the Guardian, she claimed to person overlooked 'the radical and their sorrow, which is inactive live successful them.'

While besides defending the decision, Mayor Ferdinandi said that the bid 'would person been filmed successful immoderate different municipality successful our region' and by allowing the unit to movie successful the Perugia it gave the section authorities much power implicit what was filmed. 

Former Perugia nationalist authoritative Giuliano Mignini, who led the execution probe into Knox and her past fellow Raffaele Sollecito, said that filming present and present is wrong, arsenic it was dredging up unhappy memories for a metropolis which was rocked to its halfway by the tragedy.

'Everything that has happened – the murder, proceedings aft proceedings (Knox and Sollecito were convicted and appealed twice) – has had "many repercussions", helium told the Mail earlier this month.

'Since then, enrolments person declined astatine the University of Perugia due to the fact that students nary longer consciousness safe, arsenic they utilized to. They don't privation to travel here.'

The caller bid has already sparked contention aft Disney was slammed for their 'lack of sensitivity' by Kercher's family.

The lawyer for the Kercher family, Francesco Maresca, said: 'We've already spoken astir this lawsuit excessively overmuch and astatine a definite constituent you person to adjacent the chapter.'

Speaking to The Times, she added: 'However, Knox does not privation to adjacent the chapter. This continuous stirring is simply a objection of a deficiency of sensitivity. 

'She earns money, obtains visibility connected the tv aft galore years… It seems that Knox does not privation radical to hide astir this communicative and does each she tin to support it alive.'

A connection from Kercher's sister Stephanie said that 'she volition everlastingly clasp a lasting bequest successful relationship and kindness that nary media tin change' arsenic she spoke of 'an indescribable void'. 

The existent murderer of Kercher was yet identified arsenic Rudy Guede, from the Ivory Coast, aft his DNA was recovered connected her body.

He was sentenced to 16 years earlier being freed successful 2021 arsenic helium lone needed to service 13 years owed to bully behaviour.

Knox is present 37 and has 2 children. She spends her clip advocating for transgression justness betterment and campaigning against wrongful convictions. 

The caller bid is co-produced by Monica Lewinsky who became well-know for having an matter with the then-American president Bill Clinton - a communicative which Disney besides decided to crook into a tv drama.

Series bosses accidental it tells the 'true communicative of however Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the execution of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to acceptable herself free'.

Lawyer Maresca has made disapproving references to talks Knox gave to American universities successful 2018 for which she is reported to person been paid 7 and a fractional 1000 pounds for each.

Speaking to The Times, helium went truthful acold arsenic to accidental that her calumny condemnation being upheld formed uncertainty connected her implicit innocence.

'Knox's soundlessness astatine the infinitesimal would person been the astir due thing,' helium concluded.