Italy Student-Slay Fugitive Suspect Caught
20-Year-Old Ivory Coast Man Arrested In Germany In Connection With Death Of British Student
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Image provided by Italian Police in Perugia, central Italy, of a man from the Ivory Coast identified as Rudy Hermann Guede, allegedly the fourth suspect in the slaying of a British student in central Italy, Monday Nov. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Italian Police)
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Italian police released this photo of 22-year-old British university student Meredith Kercher, who was found dead Friday with her throat slashed in the bedroom of a house in the Umbrian town of Perugia. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
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View taken Nov. 5, 2007 of the house of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia. (Getty Images/AFP/STR)
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American Amanda Marie Knox, with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of Italy, in a photo taken Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. The two are held in connection with the murder of Knox's roommate. (AP (file))
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Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, was detained in the western German city of Mainz, an investigator in Perugia told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Guede had emerged Monday as a suspect in the slaying of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, found stabbed to death Nov. 2 in her Perugia apartment. A bloody fingerprint on a bedsheet led investigators to Guede, an Ivorian former basketball player who has been living in Italy since childhood, Italian media reported.
Guede is a known drug dealer, reports CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey. He posted a video of himself on the Web site YouTube, calling himself an alien and a vampire.
The new suspect was tracked via the Internet, including YouTube and postings he made of himself on the social networking Web site Facebook, as well as his mobile phone, reports Pizzey.
Three others, including Kercher's American roommate, University of Washington student Amanda Marie Knox, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, have been jailed in Perugia.
A defense lawyer for another suspect, Congolese bar owner Diya "Patrick" Lumumba, said he has been told prosecutors will seek his release due to lack of evidence.
Authorities said they found Knox's DNA on the blade of a knife implicated in the killing that belongs to her boyfriend.
Italian police traced Guede to Germany through a friend who established Internet contact with the suspect Monday night and chatted with him for hours, the investigator said.
Police in Mainz confirmed the arrest Tuesday of a 20-year-old native of the Ivory Coast. The man was arrested on a train bound for nearby Frankfurt for traveling without a ticket, Mainz police spokesman Achim Hansen said.
In Perugia, Police Chief Arturo De Felice said Guede will be transferred to Italy within days.
"There was a trail to Germany; we knew that it could be one of the places where he could have sought refuge," he told SkyTG 25 television.
Lulumba's lawyer said he was expected to be released soon. "Lumumba is serene; he knows he will come out of this, there is no trace, nothing that leads to him," Giuseppe Sereni said.
Lumumba became a suspect based on Knox's accusations, court documents said. However, the American was confused about events Nov. 2 because she had smoked hashish that night, a judge said in a ruling ordering the three held in custody.
No physical evidence has emerged tying Lumumba to the crime scene, and witnesses have placed him at his bar the night of the murder.
A new date for another hearing for Knox and the two other suspects arrested with her could be set this week, reports Pizzey.
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See all 23 CommentsI guess not bring up race all the time only applies to others. You do know that the American student tried to frame a black guy who they just let go. I think you should wait until you get all the information before you celebrate.
Voter disenfranchisement and apathy infects the heart of our Republic. Get off your couch, put your remote control down, and become active in your nation''s political process. The pathetically few people that do vote in this country, a.k.a., "the ruling class", who currently get to decide under what kind of conditions (and Laws) you and your family will live, are certainly involved. I can assure you of that. In fact, the ruling class would be much happier if you would just continue to stay home and watch TV in your pleasantly distracted and brainwashed, stupor. That way they can continue to elect their political ****** to office, and continue to maintain their grip on 100% of the political power they currently own in this country. If you voted (God Forbid), it would cancel-out their vote, and they would lose control. They can''t have that. Now can they? If you don''t vote, my friends, you''re nothing but an unwashed "Pleb" to those that do, and the ruling class should rightfully consider themselves superior to you in every way. They do, after all, have all the power, while you have none. If you''re too apathetic and powerless to do anything for yourself more time-consuming than driving down to Mickey D''s to buy a milk shake in order to sieze control of your life, and your country''s destiny, then perhaps you deserve to be ruled over like the "Pleb" that you then are. The time to act is now. The time for political revolution has come. The time for Ron Paul is NOW!
America is tipping back way too far in her easy chair. Something BIG is about to happen, and I predict this upcoming 2008 election will be extremely pivotal. I''m not going to name any candidates. You probably already know who my favorite is. But let me make my point absolutely clear: If you think times are boring, think again. If you think the future is predictable, think again. My advice to everyone who reads this is to be thoughtful. Trust only that wisdom which is your own. 90% of mainstream media in this country is controlled by fewer than 20 different organizations. Unfortunately, they, like our sold-out political ****** in Washington, were bought and paid for by the military-industrial-pharmacutical complex decades ago. Therefore, they will paint pictures they want to paint, and people will open their minds to pictures they want to see. So, be skeptical. Be wise. Research issues and talking points on your own, and share what you learn with those you love. The future of your family tree may lay in the balance.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul''s new book, "A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship," broke into the best-seller''s list. On November 2, Congressman Paul''s collection of speeches on foreign policy from his 10-term career in the House of Representatives hovered at number 93 on the amazon.com top 100-selling books list, and continued to maintain its number one spot in the non-fiction government and economic policy genres. The book is a 30-year compilation of the Texas congressman and rising GOP presidential contender''s speeches from the congressional floor, and assorted foreign policy writings on constitutional republicanism and non-interventionism. "Dr. Paul''s message of freedom, prosperity and peace is a best-seller," said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. "The numbers don''t lie. Americans want a constitutional, humble foreign policy, which only Ron Paul can deliver in 2008."
All of the other presidential candidates want to continue our illegal police action in Iraq indefinitely, and they do not rule out a preemptive (nuclear) first strike against Iran. Conversely, Ron Paul voted against our (undeclared) war in Iraq, which was sold to us with lies. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct enemies--the jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. The war in Iraq has cost more than 3,500 American lives and almost a trillion dollars. We need a leader in the White House who will ensure this never happens again. Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have 750 foreign bases and troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America. And now, there are new calls for a draft. We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing our borders against illegal aliens who are invading us from the South. No war should ever be fought without a Declaration of War voted upon by the Congress, as required by The Constitution. Under no circumstances should the U.S. again go to war as the result of a resolution that comes from an unelected, foreign body, such as the United Nations. Too often, we give foreign aid and intervene on behalf of governments that are despised. Then, we become despised.
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Yes, people have been convicted because of the color of their skin. We live in a sad and messed up world. But it doesn''t help to just assume that happened every time, because it DID NOT.
Let''s get all the facts on this case before you decide who did what.
get a life
'' .. after 10s thousands and 100s thousands years of raped dead babies, the war lords are still afraid to fill front pages with expressive healthy babys and to tell them ''i love you'', and too refuse on the front pages to tell them ''i dare you'', sending someones elses to do so in their stead .. ''
These are two different people - Guede and Lumumba.
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