Topic - Carabinieri

The Arma dei Carabinieri is the national gendarmerie of Italy, policing both the military and civilian populations. The Carabinieri is now a branch of the armed forces (alongside the Army, Navy and Air Force), thus ending their long standing role as the first corps of the Italian army. - Source: Wikipedia

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Rescuers inspect a collapsed two-story farmhouse in Castel d'Azzano, some 10 kilometers south-west of Verona, where three carabinieri officers have been killed, and 13 others injured, in an explosion during an eviction, early Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

3 Italian carabinieri killed in apparently deliberate farmhouse explosion

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Visitors stand in a line to enter the ancient Colosseum, in Rome, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Italian police on Thursday, June 29, 2023, said they believe the person who was filmed while engraving his name on the ancient Roman Colosseum is a tourist who lives in Britain. Italian law enforcement said in a release that the identification was made using photographic comparisons. Neither the name of the suspect nor his whereabouts were given in a written press release. Italian officials have vowed to find and punish a tourist who carved “Ivan+Haley 23” on the wall of the Colosseum in Rome, a crime that resulted in hefty fines in the past. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) **FILE**

British tourist could face jail time for carving name into Colosseum

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Former member of a Italian left-wing terrorist group Marina Petrella, second left, arrives at Paris's courthouse in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. France's top court has ruled Tuesday March 28, 2023 against extraditing 10 former far-left Italian militants who were convicted for attacks carried out in the 1970s and 1980s. The two women and eight men fled Italy after their convictions and before they could be sent to prison. Now ranging in age from 62 to 79, they have lived freely in France for decades. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

French court refuses to extradite Italian former militants

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Finnegan Lee Elder, foreground, listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where he and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, young American men, convicted in Italy police slaying

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Finnegan Lee Elder, left, crosses his fingers as he talks with his father Ethan Elder, before a jury began deliberating the fates of Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, on trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where they were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Rome jury convicts 2 US friends in slaying of police officer

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 1995 file photo, Giorgio Pietrostefani attends an hearing of the trial for the killing of police officer Luigi Calabresi. Pietrostefani, among the founders of Lotta Continua group, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the 1972 murder of Milan police commissioner Luigi Calabresi, was arrested along with six other members of left wing groups sentenced in Italy for “acts of terrorism”. French police are searching for three more suspects who were not at home. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Former members of Italian Red Brigades arrested in France

By SYLVIE CORBET and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

U.S. man’s defense: fear played role in Italian’s slaying

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Finnegan Lee Elder, from the United States, walks past to Rosa Maria Esilio, widow of slain Carabinieri military police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, background left, and Paolo Cerciello Rega, brother of Mario, center, prior to a hearing in the trial where he and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth are accused of slaying a plainclothes Carabinieri officer while on vacation in Italy in July 2019, in Rome, Monday, March 1, 2021. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP)

US youth testifies he stabbed Italian officer in defense

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian officers arrested for lockdown abuses, other crimes

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Italian police smash cross-border antiquities trafficking

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Roberto Capra, lawyer of Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, talks to reporters as he leaves the Meridien hotel where Elder and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, were arrested hours after Deputy Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, 35, was knifed 11 times to his death, in Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. The two American teenagers are jailed in Rome as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel early in the morning of Friday, July 26. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Teen’s lawyer seeks footage after Italian officer’s slaying

By GIADA ZAMPANO and DOLORES HINCKLEY - Associated Press

Ethan Elder, father of Finnegan Lee Elder who is in custody for the slaying of Carabinieri officer Mario Cerciello Rega, arrrives at Regina Celi prison in Rome, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Teen’s family say it’s looking forward to truth coming out

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Ethan Elder, father of Finnegan Lee Elder, arrives at Fiumicino Rome Airport Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, is suspected of being the one who stabbed Carabinieri officer Cerciello Rega and is detained in Rome with Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, who is suspected of assaulting another officer. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy: Teen’s father says son didn’t know friend had knife

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

From left, Carabinieri Colonel Lorenzo D'Aloia, prosecutors Nunzia D'Elia, and Michele Prestipino, and Carabinieri General Francesco Gargano arrive to a press conference about the investigation on the murder of Carabinieri's officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy: Slain police officer didn’t have gun when stabbed

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this combo photo released by Italian Carabinieri, Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth, right, and Finnegan Lee Elder, sit in their hotel room in Rome. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities carry out a murder investigation in the killing of Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, 35. A detention order issued by prosecutors was shown on Italian state broadcaster RAI, naming the suspects as Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder. (Italian Carabinieri via AP)

Italy: Teen held in officer’s death ‘illegally blindfolded’

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press