FILE - Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, centre, attends a hearing for the appeals trial in Rome, on July 3, 2024. Natale-Hjorth, one of the two Americans convicted in the 2019 stabbing death of a carabiniere police officer in Rome has been granted house arrest after an appeals court significantly reduced his original life sentence.
Gabriel Natale-Hjorth can serve his 11-year, four month sentence at the home of a grandparent in the seaside town of Fregene, west of Rome, state-run RAI and LaPresse news agencies reported, citing the court decision.in the July 2019 killing of Carabinieri Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega in a botched sting operation after a Rome drug deal went bad. After the first trial, were both sentenced to life in prison, Italy’s harshest penalty.