(NewsNation) — Italy’s highest court upheld the slander conviction of American Amanda Knox on Thursday in a case related to the killing of her British flatmate in 2007.
Her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito exclusively discussed the ruling on NewsNation’s “Banfield” in his first interview since the court’s decision.
“It’s nothing new to me. I don’t trust the Italian judicial system. I didn’t trust it since there was … a conviction, then acquittal, and then conviction again,” Sollecito said.
Knox was convicted of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing her roommate 17 years ago — a crime for which she spent four years in prison but was ultimately cleared of in 2015.
“It could be a comedy show or something … I don’t believe in it, and it’s not serious at all,” Sollecito said, suggesting this was the court’s revenge for her overturned murder conviction.
“Everything was made up,” he said. “I don’t understand this conviction. I think it’s more political than anything else.”