Italian police have launched an investigation into a picture showing a US student suspected of killing an officer in a blindfold and handcuffs soon after his arrest. Two American teens were arrested on Saturday in Rome accused of the stabbing murder of Italian military police officer Mario Cerciello Rega. Judicial sources named the students as Finnegan Lee Elder (19) and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth (18) from San Francisco. They face charges of murder and attempted extortion. The photograph of Natale-Hjorth with head bowed and eyes covered by a blue blindfold at a police station started circulating on the Internet on Saturday and was published by several Italian newspapers on Sunday. Police did not deny the authenticity of the picture. “The general command of the (military police) Carabinieri disassociate themselves from the release and disclosure of photos of persons arrested for the murder of (officer) Mario Cerciello Rega,” they said in a statement on Saturday. “The Carabinieri command in Rome is carrying out with extreme urgency an investigation to identify who is responsible.” Later on Sunday, one police source said the investigation had found an officer responsible, adding he would be immediately moved to a non-operational role. There was no official confirmation… Read full this story
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