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Finnegan Lee Elder, right, shows a crucifix to codefendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth
in 2021 before a jury began deliberating their fate in their trial for the
slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer near the hotel where they were
staying while on vacation in Rome in 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
By Frances E'emilio |
PUBLISHED: February 9, 2022 at 10:41 a.m. | UPDATED: February 10, 2022 at 6:06
a.m.

ROME — Several members of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police force called
for the deaths or beatings of two American teenagers who were arrested in the
hours after an officer’s slaying, Italian media reported Wednesday.

A Carabinieri officer has been charged with using unjustified measures in
handling a suspect for allegedly blindfolding one of the teens illegally as he
awaited questioning at a police station. Phone messaging chats involving several
Carabinieri hours after the July 2019 arrests of the young tourists were
introduced as evidence at the officer’s trial on Wednesday.

Gabriel Natale-Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder, respectively 18 and 19 at the time
of the slaying in Rome, were convicted last year of murder and given Italy’s
stiffest punishment – life imprisonment. An appeals trial for the two is
scheduled to start in Rome on Thursday.

Natale-Hjorth and Elder were former classmates at Tamalpais High School in Mill
Valley.



Carabinieri Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35, was stabbed 11 times by
Elder, and his police partner was slightly injured in a scuffle with both
defendants on a street near their hotel where the Americans were staying while
on summer holiday.

At their trial, the Americans testified they were acting in self-defense against
a pair of men they believed were thugs. Cerciello Rega’s partner testified that
the two officers had identified themselves clearly as Carabinieri but that they
were immediately attacked without cause.

The officers were on a plainclothes mission to investigate an alleged extortion
attempt by the Americans following a botched attempt to buy cocaine.

Shortly after the suspects were arrested at their hotel, Natale-Hjorth was
blindfolded with a scarf as he sat in a chair for questioning at a police
station. A photo of the blindfolding, which is illegal and a violation of police
procedure in Italy, circulated in the Italian media.

On Wednesday, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera quoted from transcripts
presented at the officer’s trial of phone messaging chats involving several
Carabinieri after the arrests.



Some messages demanded that the Americans receive the death penalty – which
Italy doesn’t have – or that they be put into a closed room and killed. Another
message suggested that the two be “dissolved in acid.”

Still another message wished that the young men would meet the same fate as an
Italian man who was severely beaten in 2009 while in Carabinieri custody and
later died. Two Carabinieri police officers were eventually convicted of
involuntary homicide in that case and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Carabinieri officials on Wednesday called the chat messages “offensive and
abominable” and pledged to immediately discipline the officers involved, Italian
news agency Lapresse said.





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