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**Assentesy** · 04-21-2011, 09:21 AM

Amanda Knox reporters harrassed, jailed by authorities - Crimesider - CBS News

Dam..this is getting really nasty..they are obviously realizing how much international attention this has gotten and are afraid of the embarrassment..

(CBS) - An independent journalist of very modest means is at home in his apartment. Five police officers enter. No warrants, no badges shown. The journalist is handcuffed then beaten. He's brought before a court where police ask that the journalist be declared insane because of his coverage of a high-profile case.

According to the Committee, on September 28, 2010, five police officers from Perugia's swat-like team, Squadra Mobile (della merda), entered Sfarzo's apartment without a warrant. The Committee says police used excessive physical force on the journalist as he was handcuffed and taken away. Sfarzo was brought before a judge and the police asked that Sfarzo be "certified" insane. As evidence of his mental illness, the Committee says the police showed the judge reporter notebooks that Sfraoz kept about the Knox case. When the judge denied the police request, Sfarzo was jailed.

Sfarzo has been charged with resisting arrest. If convicted, the journalist faces up to six years in prison.

Frank Sfarzo seems to doubt that will happen. In his e-mail to Crimesider he said, "There's a gang of criminals who can do anything and judges protect them. They can beat, insult, threat, frame, force people to accuse other people or even themselves, destroy evidence, create evidence."

04-21-2011, 09:21 AM	#37
Assentesy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	Amanda Knox reporters harrassed, jailed by authorities - Crimesider - CBS News Dam..this is getting really nasty..they are obviously realizing how much international attention this has gotten and are afraid of the embarrassment.. (CBS) - An independent journalist of very modest means is at home in his apartment. Five police officers enter. No warrants, no badges shown. The journalist is handcuffed then beaten. He's brought before a court where police ask that the journalist be declared insane because of his coverage of a high-profile case. According to the Committee, on September 28, 2010, five police officers from Perugia's swat-like team, Squadra Mobile (della merda), entered Sfarzo's apartment without a warrant. The Committee says police used excessive physical force on the journalist as he was handcuffed and taken away. Sfarzo was brought before a judge and the police asked that Sfarzo be "certified" insane. As evidence of his mental illness, the Committee says the police showed the judge reporter notebooks that Sfraoz kept about the Knox case. When the judge denied the police request, Sfarzo was jailed. Sfarzo has been charged with resisting arrest. If convicted, the journalist faces up to six years in prison. Frank Sfarzo seems to doubt that will happen. In his e-mail to Crimesider he said, "There's a gang of criminals who can do anything and judges protect them. They can beat, insult, threat, frame, force people to accuse other people or even themselves, destroy evidence, create evidence."
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