He has been granted house arrest and released from prison Gabriele Natale Hjorth, the American student sentenced to 11 years and 4 months in prison for his involvement in the death of Carabiniere Mario Cerciello Rega. After five years in prison, he will serve his sentence in his grandmother's apartment in Fregene on the Roman coast, will have to wear an electronic bracelet and will not be able to communicate with the outside world. And if Rosa Maria Ersilio, Cerciello Rega's wife, had said she was "devastated" by the sentence reduction, she now returns to comment through the mouth of her lawyer, Massimo Ferrandino, expressing her "dismay" at the judges' decision. The deputy brigadier had been killed on the night of July 25-26, 2019, on the street in Rome with 11 stab wounds by Finnegan Lee Elder, the other American boy whose sentence was reduced to 15 years and two months in the bis appeal. The victim's relatives said they were "shocked" by Hjorth's release from prison.
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