When cast and crew arrived in Perugia to shoot a Hulu series produced by Knox and Monica Lewinsky, the mayor felt obliged to write a heartfelt letter of apology to the city.

The filming of Amanda Knox’s new Hulu series in Perugia, Italy— the site of her roommate Meredith Kercher’s murder in 2007— is sparking a wave of backlash from locals.

Locals in the Italian city of Perugia are concerned the series will bring new, unwanted attention nearly two decades after British student Meredith Kercher was murdered there in 2007

How many stories of Amanda Knox do we really need? At least one more, according to Hulu, whose new eight-part series Blue Moon has begun filming in Italy, sparking backlash from the residents of Perugia,

Amanda Knox has been accused of continually profiting from the murder of her British room-mate Meredith Kercher as filming gets underway in Italy for a new TV series about the brutal killing.

Film crews were met with banners reading “Rispetto per Meredith” ("Respect for Meredith") as they arrived to start shooting the eight-part series. View on euronews