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This prompts me to ask what the heck he was doing in the country in the first place. In the years since Knox and Sollecito were released has Sollecito been prevented from leaving the country? If not then why in the heck would he stay in that place? Flee! Escape! Buy a citizenship in another country if you must. If that doesn't work then buy a fake identity in another country. You don't stay there and let them target you again.
I think you underestimate the costs of doing that. Not just the financial costs, but the social ones.
Changing idendity requires forfeiting most of your property that you can't carry with you, all your academic and professional certifications and achievements, and your entire social network.
It's unclear to me that this would be better than spending 25 years in prison.
LOL. So tell me, what does your "entire social network" look like after 25 years in prison? What's the worth of "all your academic and professional certifications and achievements"? How much property do you think you'll have?
Well, at least they'll feed you for 25 years :D
You don't have any basis for that conclusion. The social costs are obvious and the financial costs I happen to have researched.
I neither believe nor disbelieve your claim about yourself. People do stranger things than voluntarily obliterate most of their life (suicide doesn't even offer parole). Nevertheless the reasoning "V_V would prefer imprisonment for most of the rest of his life over moving to a country without an extradition treaty therefore Wedrifid must underestimate the costs of such a move" is rather flawed.
Fair enough, you are probably quite unusual.
While I don't endorse his decision, I suspect it might be motivated by a desire to preserve his own public standing. In the eyes of the public, admission that the courts will probably find against you is likely to be seen as effectively admitting one's guilt. Innocent people stay and uphold their reputations.