The Italian government must pay the American Amanda Knox, who was finally acquitted in 2015 of manslaughter on her British co-hirer in 2007 in Perugia, with compensation of € 18,000 for the violation of her defence rights. That was the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday.
The three Americans who managed to prevent an attack on the Thalys from Amsterdam to Paris in August 2015 were given French nationality. They received the certificate during a ceremony in Sacramento by the French consul-general Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens.
It seemed to be the video image of the weekend: the “stand-off” between a teenager with a “Trump-cap” and a drumming Indian activist. The media talked about racism and shame about it, but in reality the story is much more fabricated, as it turns out.
