Americans Handed Life Sentences In Italy For Cop Murder By Alexandria Sage
05/05/21 AT 8:31 PM
An Italian court convicted two young Americans Wednesday for the murder of a police officer while they were on a summer holiday in Rome, with both handed life sentences.
Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, had admitted stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019, while out with his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20.
Prosecutors cast it as a brutal, unprovoked attack in which Elder, then 19, stabbed Cerciello 11 times with a seven-inch camping knife on a dark street near the Americans hotel. US citizen Gabriel Natale-Hjorth is escorted by police after the court decision in his trial on charges of murdering Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, in Rome Photo: AFP / Tiziana FABI
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Rome: An Italian court convicted two young Americans Wednesday for the murder of a police officer while they were on a summer holiday in Rome, with both handed life sentences.
Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, had admitted stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019, while out with his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20.
Prosecutors claimed it was a brutal, unprovoked attack in which Elder, then 19, stabbed Cerciello 11 times with a seven-inch camping knife.
The Americans had claimed self-defence, saying they were jumped from behind by men they thought were thugs following an earlier drug deal gone wrong.
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US citizen Finnegan Lee Elder, who is being tried along with another US citizen on murder charges after Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega was killed in July 2019, looks on as he attends a hearing during their trial in Rome, on May 5, 2021. – Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are on trial over the killing of Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, who was in plain clothes when he was slain in a night drug bust on July 26, 2019. The two face life sentences if found guilty of knowingly killing a police officer. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) An Italian court convicted two young Americans Wednesday for the murder of a police officer while they were on a summer holiday in Rome, with both handed life sentences.
Two American Tourists Given Life Sentences For Italy Cop s Murder Two American Tourists Given Life Sentences For Italy Cop s Murder Finnegan Lee Elder had admitted stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019, while out with his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth.
The Americans had claimed self-defence in court (Representational)
Rome:
An Italian court convicted two young Americans Wednesday for the murder of a police officer while they were on a summer holiday in Rome, with both handed life sentences.
Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, had admitted stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019, while out with his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20.
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