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Amanda has stated that the only reason that she placed herself in the cottage on the night of the murder, and accused Patrick of murder (after 2 hours of questioning) is because police coerced her and bopped her on the head a few times. She has claimed that those bops on the head caused the lies to pop out of her mouth.
Without the bops on the head, all we have is Amanda being questioned for 2 hours and then telling horrendous lies in an attempt to deflect attention onto an innocent man. That's a bit problematic in the "I am innocent" story.
Making public (read: internationally reported) claims that Italian police beat information out of witnesses is extremely serious. For the police to leave those statements unchallenged would do a disservice to all Italian officers. They have no choice but to set the record straight, and that cannot be done by dismissing the charges.
Of course they have a choice! They could prove their own case against AK and RS, instead of wasting man-hours piling on frivolous charges. They've already denied touching AK and she has no way of proving them wrong.
Again, we already know her statement was coerced by pressure of interrogation. The only question is whether they touched her physically, and even there they aren't accused of injuring her.
That you think this is a matter that must be pursued is just one more of the distractions on which the case against AK and RS is built. The problem is that the actual evidence doesn't prove their guilt, so the arguments against them always shift and slide from forensics to the silliest sort of "character" evidence to the slurry of nuisance lawsuits filed by the prosecution.