Defendant Finnegan Lee Elder hugs his father, Ethan Elder, before the reading of the judgment. An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two American men in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation but significantly reduced their sentences. Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth had been found guilty in the July …
Finnegan Lee Elder, left, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth arrive for a court hearing in Rome on Wednesday. That drew praise from Giorgia Meloni, the head of the hard-right Italian opposition party Brothers of Italy, who said Esilio’s words “strike at the heart.” In a tweet, Meloni wrote: “We hope the assassins serve out their sentences right to the last day, without …
ROME — The pandemic was just bearing down on Italy when the trial began of two young American men, charged with the murder of an Italian police officer near their hotel while they were on vacation in 2019. Cerciello Rega, wearing a T-shirt and long shorts, and Varriale, also dressed casually on the warm night in a polo shirt and …
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