1251 CNN: Why wasnt there any video or transcript of those hours?
1300 Mignini: Look, thats, I was at the police station, and all the
lets say
when I made investigations in my own office, I taped them. I taped them, we have an apparatus for that, and I transcribed them. For example, theres the interrogation of the English girls, Merediths friends, it was all taped. The interrogations of Amanda in prison were taped, and then transcribed, and we have the transcripts of
But in a police station, at the very moment of the investigation it isnt done, not in the confrontations with Amanda or with anyone else. Also because, I can tell you, today, even then, but today in particular, we have budget problems, budget problems that are not insignificant, which do not allow us to transcribe. Video is very important
I completely agree with you that videotaping is extremely important, we should be able to have a video recording of every statement [verbale di assunzione di informazioni] made Because what is said is very important, but its maybe even more important how it is said, the non-verbal language. Because from the non-verbal language you can [missing words].