Part 1: Mignini’s Book – Victims

It has been a difficult task to conduct the investigation and process the trial and, at the same time, to defend myself from the colossal disinformation operation that has affected every act of the investigators.
At some point, I didn’t know what to do anymore.

Giuliano Mignini

At long last, we have Giuliano Mignini’s book about the murder of Meredith Kercher simply titled, ‘ MEREDITH KERCHER CASE- A JUDICIAL AFFAIR BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS.’ The clarity of the title fits with the contents of the book, where the author shares his experience of investigating and prosecuting Meredith Kercher’s murder. His book is written with humor, humility, insight, wisdom and objectivity. Some might have expected the opposite, after years of being villainized.

Mignini points out the fact that at the start of this case, in 2007, there were no issues. The US government completely supported the Italian courts up to and including the 2009 guilty verdicts. US diplomats checked in regularly and had no issue at all with the incarceration or judicial process. There were no complaints or questions about anything from the US regarding Italy’s handling of the case. Suddenly, in 2011, seemingly overnight, everything changed. This change occurred because one of the defendants (Amanda Knox) hired a public relations (PR) firm.

A narrative was constructed, implemented and deployed. The narrative seemed to be along the lines of, “the murderer is now the victim and one of the four prosecutors (Mignini) is the perpetrator.” What followed were a series of well-funded, broadly publicized attacks on a pillar of Perugian society – Giuliano Mignini.

. . .the protagonists of the story, presented, especially at the beginning of the investigation . . . as a kind of “circe” and “insatiable” seducer or “deviless” or “witch”, with her curious nickname “Foxy Knoxy”. [Amanda Knox called herself Foxy Knoxy on her MySpace page.]
I do not remember having ever used or even thought about such expressions, which have often been attributed to me by overseas media and even by some British people. And why all this? Because the “narrative” created by Gogerty Marriott Inc., the Seattle-based media relations firm, mandated this all-false narrative to fuel media pressure that could inform court decisions about the case.

I was assigned the part of the “medieval” and, of course, obscurantist in-quisitor, a sort of judicial “Bernardo Gui”, who had, at any cost, to punish the
“devil” from the face “of angel” . . .

Giuliano Mignini

The PR came out of Seattle, WA, and generated a furor of hate towards Mignini. He received threatening letters, even from a judge.

. . .this American judge . . . assured me that I would acquire great merits to the Americans and to the whole world if I had worked to get Amanda acquitted… but “woe to me”, if I had not accepted the invitation. . . That letter was the first warning, and then letters and drawings were to come in, much less pleasant and far more offensive and threatening always from the States. At one point, it seemed to me that I had become a kind of Osama bin Laden, for the Americans . . .

Giuliano Mignini

Due to his profession, Mignini was not allowed to respond to the unrelenting and unfair attacks, until now. Since he retired in 2020, he is now able to share his side of the story with his book. It is a saga that continues to this day.

More recently, a clever spider spun Mignini’s unfortunate treatment into a way to align Knox with him. (‘Aligning’ is a mainstay of public relations.) Knox’s claim to fame (besides being a convicted slanderer) was being victimized by the press, so the new narrative became: ‘they (Mignini + Knox) are both victims of the press.” From 2017-9 the press reported that Amanda wanted to meet Mignini and become friends since they were both victims of the media. She contacted him via intermediaries, repeatedly, begging him to meet with her. Mignini explains in his book that after painful deliberations, he relented and met with Amanda once in 2022.

The problem with this latest PR spin, is that Knox is the one who bought the press to begin with. PR purchased with papa’s coin and paid off via interviews, book deals, speaking engagements, donations and Netflix flops – millions and millions of dollars. So, no, there is no comparison.

You might say, however, that Mignini and Merdith were both victims…of the same perpetrator.

(To be continued.)