Seventeen years after Amanda Knox, the American exchange student, was arrested and charged with killing her roommate in Perugia, some citizens are outraged that their city is once again being dragged into a tragedy.
This month, when cast and crew arrived there for a two-day shoot for a Hulu series about the case, Mayor Vittoria Fernandi felt obliged to write a heartfelt letter of apology to the city for the hurt caused by their presence.
An editorial in daily newspaper La Nazione wrote, 'Perhaps Meredith and Perugia would have deserved more respect without having to sacrifice the dignity of a murdered student and a brutalized city to business.'
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