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Italian minister tweets PHOTO of blindfolded US teen suspected of Carabiniere killing
Italian Interior Minister Salvini has dismissed concerns about leaked pictures of an American teenage cop-murder suspect in a blindfold and handcuffs, saying the only victim to cry for is the murdered Carabiniere officer.
Eighteen-year-old Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth and Finnegan Elder, 19, were arrested for allegedly fatally stabbing officer Mario Cerciello Rega eight times on a street in Rome on Friday.
The Carabinieri police force said in a statement that the two San Francisco teens confessed to the killing after being interrogated and faced with “overwhelming evidence.”
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The photograph printed in Italian media shows Natale-Hjorth wearing a blindfold as he sits handcuffed in a chair in a police station. Italian police commander Francesco Gargaro told AP he was briefly “illegally blindfolded,” for four or five minutes before he was questioned on Friday.
Salvini tweeted the photograph on Sunday, saying those who complain about “the arrest of a prisoner” should “remember that the only victim to cry for is a man, a son, a 35-year-old husband,” who “died in service at the hands of people who, if guilty, only deserve jail for life.”
A chi si lamenta della bendatura di un arrestato, ricordo che l’unica vittima per cui piangere è un uomo, un figlio, un marito di 35 anni, un #Carabiniere, un servitore della Patria
