The American Amanda Knoxwho spent four years in an Italian prison for a murder of which she was later acquitted, has returned to Florence and was sentenced again this Wednesday in Florence in a parallel case in which her crimes are being examined. alleged slander against a former boss whom he tried to implicate in this high-profile case.

Knox was convicted along with a former boyfriend for her alleged connection to the murder in 2007 from her roommate in Perugia, Meredith Kercher. In the early moments of the investigation, she accused her then-boss and owner of the bar where she worked in 2007, Patrick Lumumba, who was detained for two weeks before being released due to lack of evidence. Amanda accused him of the savage crime of her roommate, but she admitted having done it under pressure.

Now, an appeals court in Florence has confirmed that Knox, present in the courtroom during the reading of the verdict, had committed a crime of slander, reports the AdnKronos agency. During the process, the American alleged that He never wanted to blame an innocent person and that she was pressured by the Police during a moment of maximum emotional stress, the basis of the allegations for which her defense demanded acquittal.

Although we will still have to wait 90 days to know the details of the sentence, what does seem clear is that Knox, 36 years old and with two children from her current husband, will not have to go to prison, given the time ( four years) who already spent behind bars for a case from which she was finally acquitted. There is also an appeal to the Supreme Court, who could have the last word.

In addition to Knox, in the trial for Kercher’s murder, her ex-partner Raffaele Sollecito – acquitted like her in 2015 – and a third person, Rudy Guede, who did end up serving 13 of the 16 years in prison dictated against him, were also convicted. , before being released in 2021.