THE BOY WITH THE BALL IN HIS HANDS

The two days of the attack to Guede
And of the sweet thoughts for Amanda Knox

Rudi Guede with Giorgio Armani

A screen-saver that didn't touch Milan police

Saturday Spyros was heard, the Greek friend of Amanda Knox. He was really a good friend, Amanda was opening her heart with him. She was going all the time to his Internet Cafe to use internet and to chat with DJ, her boyfriend, or ex boyfriend, in Seattle. Amanda told Spyros that she met Raffaele and about how she felt in fault with DJ, who explains today When she moved to Italy we broke up, we were free.
Madison Paxton, one of Amanda's closest friends in Seattle, described the sweet hearted, good student and conscientious girl she knew, also hard worker and prolific writer, who would just occasionally taste alcohol or try joints.

But Saturday was the second day of the attack to Rudi Guede brought by Sollecito's lawyer Maori who aims to prove that the Perugian boy is the lonely killer of Meredith. It wasn't really needed since the truth is emerging anyway, but, everyone has his own style.

Madison Paxton at the stand

Christian, the guy who said he surprised a guy looking like Rudi in his bedroom was not heard at the pre-trial and was not found for the trial, where Friday or Saturday he should have taken the stand. It seems that he's abroad. So what remains of him is a page and a half of spontaneous declarations to the police.
Christian told the story of a black drunk man who, at 6 am of a hot September morning he caught stealing in his house. The man tried to escape threatening him with a chair and a knife. A movement very similar to the one Christian could read in the newspapers, of the murderer running away from Meredith's room and threatening Rudi with a chair and a knife. Too similar. Also, no feedback arrived for his story. None of the 3 credit cards the thief stole at his place, for instance, were found in Rudi's possession or were used in some place where Rudi was. Besides that, Christian was not sure the thief was Rudi. For these reasons judge Micheli dismissed him as a witness against Guede, and it was an obvious decision.
Often people who are certain to have recognized someone are mistaken, as it happened in a recent case in Rome. If they are not even certain then, and there's zero feedback, better not even considering their testimony. Christian wasn't sure one year and a half ago, it couldn't be more certain now.
If we want to be fair we have to cancel, together with Micheli, Christian's story from our mind. It never happened.

The woman director of the Milan kindergarten was heard. She said she arrived in the morning at the school together with a worker and she saw Rudi in her office. She asked him for explanations in a harsh way, even screaming. But Rudi didn't attack the woman and the worker, didn't run away. He was quiet, serene and available to chat. He justified himself telling her that he had payed 50 € to a guy who showed him that place, where he could sleep. The woman called the police and when the officers arrived they found in Rudi's bag a big knife he had taken from the kitchen of the kindergarten. Also a few coins that were in a closet were missing. In Rudi's bag, as we know, they found as well computer and cellphone stolen from the lawyers office. He tried to justify himself telling to have bought the devices at the Milan train station. Maybe he still didn't have realized the cellphone wasn't working but he was quick in setting his picture with Giorgio Armani as a screen-saver of the laptop. The officers sued him for entering the kindergarten, theft, receiving stolen goods, and detention and transportation of weapon.

Certainly this is a very heavy episode for Rudi. We recognize his creative lies but we don't really see a violent person. He didn't attack the woman, the worker and another person who arrived in the meantime. He didn't try to run away and he waited for the arrival of the police. He wasn't carrying a weapon if is true that he had just stolen one.
When back in Perugia, he will show up in shorts, singlet and with a ball in his hands at the lawyers office to explain that he wasn't the author of the theft (at least, for what those lawyers have told us. Strange lawyers, actually, terrified of journalists...).

Can this coins thief, can this naif boy with a ball in his hand turn, in a few days, into the ruthless butcher of Meredith?
Hard to believe, but he was there. He was in Meredith's room and his story of the murderer arriving while he was in toilet doesn't stand.

On the other hand clues of a murder committed by more than one person still stand.
As we know a witness heard two people running after a scream. Another witness met, at 22:30, a black person, who wasn't Rudi, having the typical way of walking of someone who absolutely didn't have to be seen in his face and didn't have his voice to be heard.
Introna's reconstruction, then, as we have seen, doesn't really work and didn't prove why Meredith didn't have defense wounds.
Analyzing the B & A at the lawyers' office, then, in which Rudi is almost certainly involved, we have noticed the presence of a quasi professional thief able to disable the antitheft. The burglar located the antitheft and disabled the automatic phone calls it does, something like that. A circumstance that makes one think that the basketball player may have gone to steal there together with a more experienced thief. And the mini gang may have done the same at Meredith's place.

Every trial is a lottery, you never know how the judge will decide and Knox and Sollecito's defenses don't exclude that Presidente Massei will convict the lovebirds.
It's funny to see judge and jury discovering this case day by day.
At our own private trial, instead, the case of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito is solved since long time.
Personally I've heard the prosecution theory in 2007 and tried to believe it. Then I've been looking for something placing Amanda and Raffaele out of his place on the night of the crime, and what did I find? Only a nuts, a buffoon, a couple of jackals and the evanescence of a bunch of doubtful genes.
Little by little everyone is figuring out, everyone will try to jump on the cart of the truth. It will be funny to look at how the prosecution's footlickers will try to change foot to lick. Or how all the guilt side supporters will maybe become just neutral, for then trying to sell themselves as innocent side.
Now everyone is good at maintaining the defendants' innocence, but all of these people have missed forever the pleasure of having helped the discovery of the truth in difficult times, running --with arguments, not with feelings-- against the scientific results and against the conviction of the whole police, two prosecutors, the Gip, the Court of Freedom, the General Attorney, the Supreme Court, the Gup. An unbelievable amount of super qualified people (at least, on the paper), supported by media and public opinion, who didn't have any doubt about the guilt of the two lovebirds.

But the case of Meredith is not the case of Knox and Sollecito, and it isn't solved for anyone.
It looks like Rudi has been grabbing the occasion of Amanda and Raffaele's position for trying to blame them and save himself.
If not at this trial, though, if not at the appeal trial, one day the lovebirds will be acquitted and Rudi will lose his excuse.

Now the ball is really in his hands. And I'm not talking basketball this time. He has the chance to tell us if there was someone else at Meredith's place and who he was. If not --defense wounds or not, two people running or not-- the case of Meredith Kercher will be solved, with his only guilt.

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