Italian police officer who was fatally stabbed in altercation with 2 American teens was unarmed at the time of his death, police and prosecutors say.
The Italian police officer who was fatally stabbed in an altercation with two American teenagers was unarmed at the time of his death, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday.
At a press conference Tuesday police and prosecutors said they were still investigating the events that led up the stabbing of Carabinieri police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, 35 and released an image of the alleged murder weapon.The teens were provided with lawyers and translators, even though one of them said he speaks Italian, prosecutors and police said in a press conference on Tuesday morning, where they described their investigation in detail.
Brugiatelli set up a meeting with the teens and two plainclothes officers went to the meeting, where they encountered the teens who were wearing hoods, the officials said.The officials said that Elder explained that he brought the knife with him to the meeting because he was “afraid something could go wrong.” He then used the knife, which he had brought with him to Italy from the U.S., because he was afraid, police said.
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