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Satanism and Amanda Knox
This is something I originally posted on the WGA related chat board “Writer Action” some time back, and came across while cleaning out my desktop…
Satanism and Amanda Knox
Italian misogyny’s theological dimension is even more disturbing -- it is a not an uncommon belief that young girls on the cusp of womanhood are especially prone to Satan worship. The Vatican’s Squadra Anti Sette (SAS) works with police to identify sects as the motive for young people to do evil.
(1) NEWSWEEK: Barbi Nadeau – 21 March 2009
Last month in Perugia, police investigated four satanic-ritual break-ins, including one at the sealed scene of the 2007 murder of U.K. student Meredith Kercher.
Police have noticed such a sharp increase in satanic-ritual crimes that they've started bringing priests along to help decipher crime scenes. The Vatican's Squadra Anti Sette, or antisect police force, has been around since 2006, but in the past year its numbers have doubled. "Satanic sects are proliferating," says the Vatican's chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, who has trained nearly 300 priests to perform exorcisms in Italy.
https://www.newsweek.com/vatican-help...
(2) From Nina Burleigh (Fatal Gift of Beauty, p. 213) --
Mignini always included witch fear in his murder theory, and only reluctantly relinquished it. As late as October 2008, a year after the murder, he told a court that the murder:
“…was premeditated and was in addition a ‘rite’ celebrated on the occasion of the night of Halloween. A sexual and sacrificial rite [that] in the intention of the organizers … should have occurred 24 hours earlier” – on Halloween – “but on account of a dinner at the house of horrors, organized by Meredith and Amanda’s Italian flatmates, it was postponed for one day. The presumed assassins contented themselves with the evening of 1 November to perform their do-it-yourself rite, when for some hours it would again be the night of All Saints.”
Eventually, Mignini’s number two, the chain-smoking, no-nonsense Manuela Comodi, persuaded him to drop the references to Satanism But no one forgot about it, not the jury, not the judge, not the press, not the Perugians, not the court spectators, who could never look at Amanda and Raffaele without wondering whether a whiff of sulfur surrounded them. – Nina Burleigh
(3) From official court transcripts, some of the names Knox was called at trial by the prosecutors, and by civil attorneys representing the Kercher family and Patrick Lumumba:
Luciferina, She-Devil, Whore, Witch, Angel Face, Diavola (she devil), Temptress, Lilith, Jezebel, Slut, Half Demon, Dirty inside and out, Diabolical, Party Girl, Evil, Violent, Dangerous, Jealous, Mean, Uncaring, Evil incarnate, Compulsive liar, Evil Fox, Sex crazed killer, Lesbian, Icicle Eyes, Graphomaniac, Demonic, Satanic, Diabolical She Devil, Promiscuous, Witch of Deception, (wears a) Mask of Deception, Mask of an imposter, Cunning, Muddy on the outside, Dirty on the inside, Actress, Likes hot wild sex, Histrionic, Face of a naive doll, Slovenly, coming from a family of Nazi propagandists, Spell casting witch, virtuoso of deception, dissolute, Half Maria Goretti, Half Demon.
(4) Prosecutor Mignini’s closing argument to the jury:
Prosecutor Mignini speculates on the basis of nothing:
“For Amanda, the moment had come to take revenge on that simpering girl, that’s how she thought, and in a crescendo of threats and violence, which grew and grew, the siege on Mez began. By now the unstoppable game of violence and sex. The aggressors initially threatened her and demanded her submission to the hard-core sex game. It’s easy to imagine Amanda, angry at the British girl for her increasing criticism of Amanda’s sexual easiness, reproaching Mez for her reserve. Let’s try to imagine—she insulted her. Perhaps she said, ‘You were a little saint. Now we’ll show you. Now you have not choice but to have sex.’”
Satanism and Amanda Knox
Italian misogyny’s theological dimension is even more disturbing -- it is a not an uncommon belief that young girls on the cusp of womanhood are especially prone to Satan worship. The Vatican’s Squadra Anti Sette (SAS) works with police to identify sects as the motive for young people to do evil.
(1) NEWSWEEK: Barbi Nadeau – 21 March 2009
Last month in Perugia, police investigated four satanic-ritual break-ins, including one at the sealed scene of the 2007 murder of U.K. student Meredith Kercher.
Police have noticed such a sharp increase in satanic-ritual crimes that they've started bringing priests along to help decipher crime scenes. The Vatican's Squadra Anti Sette, or antisect police force, has been around since 2006, but in the past year its numbers have doubled. "Satanic sects are proliferating," says the Vatican's chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, who has trained nearly 300 priests to perform exorcisms in Italy.
https://www.newsweek.com/vatican-help...
(2) From Nina Burleigh (Fatal Gift of Beauty, p. 213) --
Mignini always included witch fear in his murder theory, and only reluctantly relinquished it. As late as October 2008, a year after the murder, he told a court that the murder:
“…was premeditated and was in addition a ‘rite’ celebrated on the occasion of the night of Halloween. A sexual and sacrificial rite [that] in the intention of the organizers … should have occurred 24 hours earlier” – on Halloween – “but on account of a dinner at the house of horrors, organized by Meredith and Amanda’s Italian flatmates, it was postponed for one day. The presumed assassins contented themselves with the evening of 1 November to perform their do-it-yourself rite, when for some hours it would again be the night of All Saints.”
Eventually, Mignini’s number two, the chain-smoking, no-nonsense Manuela Comodi, persuaded him to drop the references to Satanism But no one forgot about it, not the jury, not the judge, not the press, not the Perugians, not the court spectators, who could never look at Amanda and Raffaele without wondering whether a whiff of sulfur surrounded them. – Nina Burleigh
(3) From official court transcripts, some of the names Knox was called at trial by the prosecutors, and by civil attorneys representing the Kercher family and Patrick Lumumba:
Luciferina, She-Devil, Whore, Witch, Angel Face, Diavola (she devil), Temptress, Lilith, Jezebel, Slut, Half Demon, Dirty inside and out, Diabolical, Party Girl, Evil, Violent, Dangerous, Jealous, Mean, Uncaring, Evil incarnate, Compulsive liar, Evil Fox, Sex crazed killer, Lesbian, Icicle Eyes, Graphomaniac, Demonic, Satanic, Diabolical She Devil, Promiscuous, Witch of Deception, (wears a) Mask of Deception, Mask of an imposter, Cunning, Muddy on the outside, Dirty on the inside, Actress, Likes hot wild sex, Histrionic, Face of a naive doll, Slovenly, coming from a family of Nazi propagandists, Spell casting witch, virtuoso of deception, dissolute, Half Maria Goretti, Half Demon.
(4) Prosecutor Mignini’s closing argument to the jury:
Prosecutor Mignini speculates on the basis of nothing:
“For Amanda, the moment had come to take revenge on that simpering girl, that’s how she thought, and in a crescendo of threats and violence, which grew and grew, the siege on Mez began. By now the unstoppable game of violence and sex. The aggressors initially threatened her and demanded her submission to the hard-core sex game. It’s easy to imagine Amanda, angry at the British girl for her increasing criticism of Amanda’s sexual easiness, reproaching Mez for her reserve. Let’s try to imagine—she insulted her. Perhaps she said, ‘You were a little saint. Now we’ll show you. Now you have not choice but to have sex.’”
