US students appear in Italian court over police murder last year
by Staff and agencies in Rome from on (#4ZXBR)
The defendants have been held in Rome's Regina Coeli prison in Rome since the arrest
Two US students have appeared in an Italian court on the first day of their trial over the fatal stabbing last year of a policeman during a botched drugs bust.
Finnegan Lee Elder, 20, and fellow student Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 19, are charged with murdering Mario Cerciello Rega in central Rome on 26 July in an incident that shocked Italians.
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