APRIL 30 – MAY 7, 2021
From a drive-in fashion show in a car park in Prague, to the reopening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and supporters celebrating after Ajax clinched the Dutch Premier League soccer title, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Europe and Africa.
The selection was curated by AP photographer Gregorio Borgia in Rome.
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2 Americans convicted of killing police officer in Italy and sentenced to life in prison
May 5, 2021 / 9:19 PM / AP 2 Americans get life in prison for murder in Italy
A jury convicted two American friends Wednesday in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison.
The jury of two judges and six civilians deliberated more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, handing them Italy s stiffest sentence.
Elder and Natale-Hjorth were found guilty of all charges: homicide, attempted extortion, assault, resisting a public official and carrying an attack-style knife without just cause. There was a gasp in the Rome courtroom as the presiding judge, Marina Finiti, read the verdict.
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Gabriel Natale-Hjorth is escorted by police officers during the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. A jury in Rome has convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a drug sting gone awry, sentencing them to life in prison. The jury delivered more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts late Tuesday against 21-year-old Finnegan Lee Elder and 20-year-old Gabriel Natale. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) May 05, 2021 - 6:18 PM
ROME - A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison.
His integrity was defended, Rosa Maria Esilio said outside the courtroom, between sobs. He was everyone s son, everyone s Carabinieri. He was a marvelous husband, he was a marvelous man, a servant of the state who merited respect and honor.
The defendants were led immediately out of the courtroom after the verdicts were read. As Elder was being walked out, his father, Ethan Elder, called out, Finnegan, I love you. Both of his parents looked stunned.
Elder s lawyer, Renato Borzone, called the verdict against his client a disgrace for Italy. Natale-Hjorth s lawyer, Fabio Alonzi, said he was speechless.
For the brief final hearing before deliberations Wednesday, the two Californians were allowed out of steel-barred defendant cages inside the courtroom to sit with their lawyers before the case went to the jury.
Two Americans sentenced to Italian prison for life after Roman police officer stabbed to death in ‘drug deal gone bad’
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Finnegan Lee Elder, left, crosses his fingers as he talks with his parents Ethan and Leah Elder, before a jury began deliberating the fates of Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, on trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where they were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP
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ROME (AP) A jury in Italy convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying in Rome of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to the maximum life in prison.