Calls by Raffaele Sollecito to 112 Emergency Number for Police on Nov. 2,  2007

First call (Translated by Clander of PerugiaMurderFile.Org.)

POLICE:
Carabinieri
RS:
Hello, good day, listen ... someone has entered the house breaking the window and has made a big mess and there is a closed door. The street is… RS to AK: What's the street?
AK:
[Background] Via della Pergola.
RS:
Via della Pergola 7.
POLICE:
Via?
RS:
della Pergola 7, in Perugia.
POLICE:
Residence of mister...?
RS:
Ehmm... Amanda Knox.
POLICE:
Eh??
RS:
The... who lives here is... they are a group of students among which there is Amanda Knox.
POLICE:
Give me the name and mobile number of one of the tenants.
RS:
OK. Amanda.
POLICE:
Yes...
RS:
The last name K, N...
POLICE:
Yes...
RS:
O, X.
POLICE:
Yes
RS:
The mobile number... ehhh.
POLICE:
Hello?
RS:
Yes, yes, I'm here. I'm taking the number.

[Long pause]

RS:
348
POLICE:
Yes.
RS:
46
POLICE:
Yes.
RS:
73
POLICE:
Yes.
RS:
590
POLICE:
590?
RS:
Yes.
POLICE:
Theft [burglary] in the house eh?
RS:
No, there's no theft... they broke a window... there is a mess... there is also a closed door... a mess.
POLICE:
Just a moment please.

[Music plays for 5 seconds]

POLICE:
Hello?
RS:
Yes.
POLICE:
So listen, they entered... they broke a window... and how do you know they entered?
RS:
It can be seen by the signs... that there are drops... there are blood stains in the bathroom.
POLICE:
So they entered... because the [window's] broken... did they cut themselves breaking the window?
RS:
Ehmm... this...

[The call is cut off.]

POLICE:
Hello?

Second call

POLICE:
Carabinieri, Perugia.
RS:
Yes hello, I called two seconds ago.
POLICE:
Someone has entered the house and broke the window?
RS:
Yes.
POLICE:
Then they went into the bathroom.
RS:
I don't know, if you come here perhaps...
POLICE:
What did they take?
RS:
They didn't take anything, the problem is the closed door, there are bloodstains.
POLICE:
There is a closed door. Which door's closed?
RS:
[The door] of one of the flatmates who isn't here and we don't know where she is.
POLICE:
And there are blood stains outside the door of this flatmate who's not there?
RS:
The blood stains are in the bathroom.
POLICE:
Oh in the bathroom. And this door is closed. And this girl, do you have her mobile number, her ...?
RS:
Yes, yes, we tried to call her but she's not answering.
POLICE:
OK, I'll send a patrol car now and we'll check the situation out.
RS:
OK.
POLICE:
OK?
RS:
OK.
POLICE:
Goodbye.
RS:
Goodbye.

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