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https://news.yahoo.com/family-upset-us- ... 27563.html

Family of one of the men, thinks the punishment was too extreme.

Parents are probably really happy about that $20,000 they spent to send their kids to Italy for the summer.

https://apple.news/AbM2Y5p-XQquyHKkM4UJ0yw

Found Guilty.

I hope this is a big lesson to American kids who are lucky enough to vacation overseas.

Don’t break their laws. Don’t be an ugly American and a gangster when your overseas.

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This recent post is an essay on self defense and goes into why these two kids are toast (as they should be).

When you claim self defense, your saying “ you did it “. Thus if you fail at self defense, your a murderer and the kid who was with his friend is just as much a murderer.

https://news.yahoo.com/us-teens-mom-hea ... 24586.html#

Son did not know friend had a knife.

Well apparently, the two Americans were not involved in the murder and this is mistaken identity and a forced confession by Italian police wanting to close the case quickly is now defunct.

Father and friend who is a lawyer interview son and release evidence to press.

I guess it is now a self defense or murder case. Maybe the friend lawyer can move for a change of venue to San Fransisco. If not, we won’t see these kids again.

Ugly Americans.

https://gulfnews.com/world/europe/rome- ... 4497471829

Suspects cried during interview.

US Marine close quarters knife they brought with them from America.

Can you do that?

Yes if it in your checked bag. Is it legal in Italy? No. Maximum blade length is 3”. They most likely did not go through any baggage inspection in Rome, but they could X-ray the bags behind the scenes looking for stuff.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/artic ... 206243.php

Not looking good for the stabber.

Apparently beat a kid in high school, kid got a serious brain injury. Juvenile records sealed.
Judge says he claimed self defense as his alibi.

https://www.apnews.com/7547b0ccc8bd4dc996339fdc328c0b2b

Looking pretty bad for the young American tourists. Sounds like the 18 year old sang like a bird. Hey, I didn’t kill anyone I don’t have to worry. 19 yo feared for his life, being strangled, but judge says no marks on neck.

Or they were tortured into a fake confession, illegal blind fold doesn’t help with that.

Wonder if the police recorded the interrogation, like here in the US.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/europe/i ... index.html

Photo leaked showing one of the suspects blind folded.

Police Officer was undercover and was unarmed.

They apparently answered the cell phone that was in the stolen backpack.

My guess the well off parents are rethinking their decision to allow and pay for a trip to Rome for their young sons.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... iller-case Blindfold rocks Rome newspapers.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/ ... p-killing/

More information on the two American tourists.

Unnamed source says one a troublemaker.

Italian police carry guns, but were undercover.

Identified from security cameras.

Attorney says now not answering questions.

Police found the hidden knife and bloody clothes, with the confession an open and shut case.

Unlike the Amanda Knox case, the press is focusing on the dead police officer.

So they are the guys, or the Italian police wanted a quick resolution to the murder of one of theirs and these guys happen to look like the murderers and had a hotel room nearby.

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 5:39 pm No longer allegedly....they were caught and confessed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -deal.html

Two San Francisco teens on a ‘drug holiday’ in Rome have been arrested in the Italian capital on charges of murder and attempted extortion in connection with the fatal stabbing of a police officer on Friday morning

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The college girl who was convicted of murdering her female college roommate in Italy also confessed.

She was later freed and I think just got married.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Knox

I’m just kinda confused about the drug dealer calling the police after being robbed of his backpack and the police setting up some kind of sting to catch the American tourists.

I’m sure every American tourist who has had their purse or back pack stolen in Rome is amazed at the go get them attitude of the Rome police.

Then there is the hidden knife in their room. Do they not watch cop shows in the US before they started doing drugs.

I’m going to not rush to judgement.

https://news.yahoo.com/italy-detains-2- ... 20878.html

Ugly Americans?

Very weird circumstances. They rip off a drug dealer. Drug dealer calls police.

Is this how American tourists spend their time in Rome now?

I visited the Vatican and the Spanish steps.