The 5th Chamber said they acquitted Amanda and Raffaele for not having committed the crime. They also said that no further evidence was expected to be found. You can wait all you want, but there is no puzzle to me. Guede committed his crimes by himself, and Amanda and Raffaele were not accomplices to anything.

….. that Amanda and Raffaele were accomplices to Guede’s crimes …

Exactly: That’s the question.

There was and is enough proof in my eyes (and in the eyes of a majority of people around the globe). It wasn’t enough for the ISC. They acquitted due to “insufficient” evidence. But I’m sure there will be enough proof in the so called “Court of Public” some day in the future when all puzzle – pieces are on the table. So, as I said: Let’s wait and see the future developments.

Massei Report 2010:
Pg 110: Also, her (Meredith) hands were bloodstained and were protected with plastic bags in order to allow sample collection, as SOME HAIRLIKE FIBRES could be seen.
Pg 190: Dr. Stefanoni: “As for what appeared to be hairlike filaments found on the victim’s body, when examined under a microscope they appeared to be strands of wool and gave no results.”
Pg 190: In listing the objects found in the victim’s room, she (Stefanoni) mentioned …..and a hairlike filament.

The “hairlike fibres” are what the police initially observed on Meredith’s hand (and subsequently bagged her hands to protect the evidence) and apparently mistook for “African hair.” It appears this is most likely what sent the police on a wild goose chase that resulted in Diya “Patrick” Lumumba being accused of the murder.

On Nov 5, 2007 this appeared in La Repubblica (now archived behind a paywall):
““There are suspicions about a North African cook, one who works in one
of the pubs frequented by the English students in Perugia, Meredith and
her friends. “It’s the kind of cut throat” that makes investigators
suspect Islam.”

Between Nov 3 and 5th, 2007:
A review about what is being said about the Murder in both the British Independent and the Italian La Repubblica:
In
three days the police have hypothesized that Meredith 1) Knew her
killer 2) It could be someone she met at a Halloween party and had “made
a date” with 3) There is more than one killers 4) She was forced to
have sex or raped 5) She was held down 6) She was stabbed with a smooth
blade knife 6) She struggled with her killers 7) Police are focused on a
small group of friends 8) Some one must have lent out the keys to the
apartment 9) Police were looking for a black man who frequented pubs 10) Prosecutor Guiliano Mignini is at the helm of the investigation and it is he who told reporters that “sex was forced.”

What you are seeing is the perfect example of the police fitting innocent people into a scenario that they have created. At this point, they have NO IDEA what anyone will confess to, but as we saw with the interrogations, that didn’t matter. Come heck or high water they would get something, anything, to use against the students, no matter how ridiculous or illegal.

The Perugians also know (from wire tapping Amanda’s phone on the afternoon of Nov 2 that:
1) Amanda’s mother was due to arrive on Nov 6.
2) Amanda’s cousin in Germany was asking her to come to Germany 3) Raffaele’s sister was Carabinieri
4) Raffaele’s father was asking him to come home.
5) That Amanda’s employer was a black club owner named Patrick Lumumba.

You didn’t read the comment correctly.

I don’t have to wait and see if Guede confesses to committing his crimes against Meredith alone. I don’t have to accept the court ruling that he had accomplices. His trial did not prove he acted with accomplices. The judges only ruled on speculation without proof that he had accomplices, but in any case, there was no proof that Amanda and Raffaele were accomplices to Guede’s crimes against Meredith. So believe what you will about Guede having accomplices, but I don’t have to agree with you.

As Professor Gill pointed out, the prosecution should have shown experimentally that it is possible to clean a knife of blood but not of DNA.

There is no reason to conclude that the DNA from 36B was actually on the blade. The profile was generated from a very small amount of DNA, and this requires special handling and procedures.

Seems there are fundamentally different views on participation in that crime, on evidence & its evaluation respectively the conclusions to be drawn. Furthermore a different understanding of logic and common sense can be stated.

In short: Our views & thoughts obviously are diametrically opposed.

I accept that. I accept your different attitude.

But I think we both can & do agree that the case can’t be seen as “solved” or “closed”. Maybe legally (there will be not re – trial against Knox & Sollecito) but not de facto. As far as the acquittal of Knox & Sollecito is to be considered as imperative the same applies to the ISC – Decision that Guede is “not the actual killer” but “only an accomplice to others”.

Let’s look forward …. until 2018 for the first place.

Maybe we will hear a (late) confession of Rudy Guede then that he indeed acted alone. But it’s perfectly possible that finally other things come to surface.

So, my recommendation here and now: Let’s wait and see !