Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995,2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013,and has served as a member of the Senate of the Republic since 2022,and previously from March to November 2013,and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019,and previously from 1999 to 2001.
Giulio Andreotti was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments,and was leader of the Christian Democracy party and its right-wing;he was the sixth-longest-serving prime minister since the Italian unification and the second-longest-serving post-war prime minister. Andreotti is widely considered the most powerful and prominent politician of the First Republic.
Gianfranco Fini is an Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement,the conservative National Alliance,and the center-right Future and Freedom party. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Silvio Berlusconi's government from 2001 to 2006.
Trials and allegations involving Silvio Berlusconi have been extensive and include abuse of office,bribery and corruption of police officers,judges and politicians,collusion,defamation,embezzlement,extortion,false accounting,mafia,money laundering,perjury,tax fraud,underage prostitution influence and witness tampering.
The Minister of Defence is a senior member of the Italian Cabinet who leads the Ministry of Defence. The minister is responsible for military and civil defence matters and managing the Italian Armed Forces.
Amanda Marie Knox is an American author,activist,and journalist. She spent almost four years in an Italian prison following her wrongful conviction for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher,a fellow exchange student with whom she shared an apartment in Perugia. In 2015,Knox was definitively acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.
Marta Russo was a 22-year-old student at the school of law at the Sapienza University of Rome,who was shot and killed within the university grounds. Her death was the centre of a complex court case that garnered huge media attention owing to the lack of substantial evidence and motive.
Generation Italy or Finiani was an association connected to Future and Freedom (FLI),a political party in Italy,and earlier to The People of Freedom (PdL).
Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia,Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom. By the time the bloodstained fingerprints at the scene were identified as belonging to Rudy Guede,an Ivorian migrant,police had charged Kercher's American roommate,Amanda Knox,and Knox's Italian boyfriend,Raffaele Sollecito. The subsequent prosecutions of Knox and Sollecito received international publicity,with forensic experts and jurists taking a critical view of the evidence supporting the initial guilty verdicts.
Protagonist Italy is a national conservative foundation and think tank connected to Forza Italia,a political party in Italy.
Foundation of Freedom was a liberal-conservative think tank connected to The People of Freedom,a political party in Italy.
New Italy Foundation is a national and socially-conservative think tank in Italy.
Future and Freedom,whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy,was a political party in Italy,comprising both liberal and national conservative elements.
Silvio Berlusconi,then the Prime Minister of Italy,was accused and initially formally convicted of paying 17-year-old Moroccan Karima El Mahroug,also known by the stage name Ruby Rubacuori,for sexual services between February and May 2010 when she was under the age of 18;he was found not guilty on appeal. He was found not guilty on appeal also,formerly convicted of malfeasance in office by arranging to have El Mahroug released from police detention during an incident in which she was briefly held on claims of theft. On 24 June 2013,the Court of First Instance sentenced Berlusconi to seven years in prison,and banned him from public office for life. Berlusconi appealed the sentence,and on 18 July 2014,an appeals court overturned Berlusconi's conviction,thus making him once again eligible to hold elected office.
Amanda Knox:Murder on Trial in Italy is a 2011 American true crime television film. It stars Hayden Panettiere as Amanda Knox,Paolo Romio as Raffaele Sollecito,Djibril Kébéas Rudy Guede and Amanda Fernando Stevens as Meredith Kercher,and first aired on the Lifetime network on February 21,2011.
Giuliano Mignini is an Italian magistrate. He retired as a public prosecutor in Perugia,Umbria,in 2020.
Candace Dempsey is an American author,journalist and travel writer. She has written for several magazines in the United States,and is the author of Murder in Italy (2010),a study of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher and the trials of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.
The Verdict Of Perugia is a German stage play written by Stefan C. Limbrunner that had its premiere performance on 17 September 2015 at the theatre "Cabaret des Grauens" in Burghausen Germany. It is notable for being the first theatrical adaptation of the Meredith Kercher murder case,and the subsequent miscarriage of justice concerning Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The play is both a true crime documentary and a classic courtroom drama depicting the Nencini trial that took place from September 2013 until January 2014 in Florence,Italy.
Amanda Knox is a 2016 American documentary film about Amanda Knox,twice convicted and later acquitted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10,2016,and on Netflix on September 30,2016.
