Milan, 18 May (LaPresse) – ‘Seven out of ten Italians still think I’m guilty.’ This is an excerpt from Raffaele Sollecito’s interview conducted by Francesca Fagnani for Belve Crime, airing on Tuesday 19 May from 9.20 pm on Rai 2. The “Perugia murder” is one of the most hotly debated cases of the last thirty years, ever since, on the morning of 2 November 2007, the body of British student Meredith Kercher was found dead, stabbed to death, in a flat in the Umbrian capital. The victim’s flatmate, the American student Amanda Knox, and her boyfriend, the Apulian computer engineering student Raffaele Sollecito, immediately came under the investigators’ scrutiny. The two young people, aged 23 and 20 at the time of the murder, were acquitted in 2015 after four years in pre-trial detention and a legal battle that only after eight years identified the Ivorian Rudy Guede as the sole proven perpetrator of the murder. “A great many people believe I got off too lightly,” says Sollecito on the Belve Crime programme, adding that “70 per cent believe I am guilty”. According to Sollecito, who now lives between Berlin and Puglia and works as a computer engineer, this prejudice still has repercussions on his life: “There have been companies that tore up my contract after making me sign it as soon as they discovered the case involving me.”