Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of an Italian police officer on a street near their hotel.
A woman leaves flowers in front of the Carabinieri station where Mario Cerciello Rega was based, in Rome, Saturday, July 27, 2019. In a statement Saturday, Carabinieri officers investigating the death Friday of officer Cerciello Rega, 35, said two American turists, both 19, have been detained for alleged murder and attempted extortion.
The other American was described in the document as pummeling Cerciello Rega’s partner repeatedly with his bare hands. The partner, who was not seriously injured, has been described as a key witness in the investigation. Elder’s lawyer, Francesco Codini, told reporters that his client had exercised his right not to respond to questions during a detention hearing Saturday in the Rome jail where the two teens are being held.
They said the bag, with a phone inside, was snatched from an Italian man. The Americans in a phone call, the police contend, “threatened to not give it back to him without payment of 100 euros and a gram of cocaine.” The Americans, “even though the officers identified themselves as being Carabinieri, didn’t hesitate to engage in a struggle, culminating in the mortal wounding” of the policeman, the statement said.The Carabinieri said video surveillance cameras and witnesses allowed them to quickly identify the Americans and find them in a hotel near the scene of the slaying.
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