Cerciello Rega, 35, was mourned as a national hero. Cerciello Rega had recently returned from a honeymoon when he was assigned along with partner, officer Andrea Varriale, to follow up on a reported extortion attempt. Rosa Maria Esilio, right, widow of Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, sits near her lawyers in the trial. Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, centre, is escorted by police officers during the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer, in Rome. Photos of the newlyweds, with Cerciello Rega in his dress uniform, after their wedding, were widely displayed in Italian media after the slaying.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 06, 2021 00:00 UTC