Amanda Knox turned her murder conviction into a stand-up comedy – people were outraged

The news agency, for example, reports on the matter APthe British Broadcasting Corporation BBC mixed The Guardian.

Knox was on an exchange year in Italy aged 20 in November 2007 when her 21-year-old British roommate Meredith Kercher was found murdered.

Knox was convicted of murder and spent nearly four years in prison until the Italian Supreme Court overturned Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaelle Solleciton murder convictions in 2015.

Knox has since returned to the United States. She is married and the mother of two children. She hosts a podcast with her husband, and last year she published a memoir Free: My Search for Meaning.

Films, documentaries and TV series have also been made about the case.

Now Knox, 39, has written for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of Performing Arts Cartwheel-show, which, according to the festival’s website, deals with motherhood and how she plans to explain to her daughter what happened in Perugia, Italy in 2007. The performance has been in the festival program since last Friday.

Knox’s behavior after the incident attracted widespread attention and was not considered appropriate: he showed his emotions openly, smiling, laughing and hugging his loved ones even during the murder trial.

That’s why he has named his hour-long show To Cartwheel (Finnish cartwheel). For he refers to the claim that he did cartwheels at the police station after his friend’s death.

BBC Breakfast Stephanie Kercher, who was interviewed on the program, directed her words directly to Knox last week.

“I would say [Knoxille]that he should think about his family and friends here and put himself in the other person’s shoes and think about how it would feel if this happened to his own sister – I know he has a sister too.”

According to Stephanie Kercher, her entire family still feels pain when thinking about what happened. He acknowledged that Knox is “inherently free to go on with his life the way he wants”, but noted that the problem is that it’s a comedy.

Spread online, demanding cancellation of the show plea had already collected more than 42,000 signatures by Tuesday afternoon. According to the signatories, allowing Knox to perform is in poor taste and shows no empathy for the Kercher family. According to Osa, Knox has commercialized Kercher’s death.

Knox said himself last week The Telegraph – magazine that he is not joking about Kercher’s murder. When asked if Kercher would have found his comedy funny, he said he thought so.

“It’s fun!”

On Thursday, Knox posted on her Instagram account the updatewhere he notes that the show honors Kercher’s memory.

Festival director Tony Lankester told BBC Radio Scotland that Knox’s show will not be canceled because the festival supports freedom of expression. According to Lankester, the law runs the line: if one of the performers uses the visibility offered by the event to break the law, incite violence or hate speech, it will be dealt with.

The Edinburgh Fringe is considered the world’s largest performing arts festival. It has served as a springboard for many comedians at the beginning of their careers.

The performance is in the festival program until Monday of next week.

Meredith Kercherin A man from the Ivory Coast was eventually convicted of the murder Rudy Hermann Guedewhose DNA was found at the crime scene.

Guede was released from prison in 2021 after serving most of his 16-year sentence.