Deputy Brigadier Murder: Carabiniere Shares Blindfolded Photo of Hjorth on Chat: Convicted

Rome – He photographed and shared on a chat platform the photo of Gabriel Natale Hjorth, one of the two Americans arrested for the murder of Deputy Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega. Carabiniere Silvio Pellegrini has been sentenced to five months in prison.

The soldier was accused of posting a photo on WhatsApp of a blindfolded man at the barracks on Via in Selci in Rome. He is charged with revealing and using official secrets. The Supreme Court of Cassation upheld the ruling of the Rome Court of Appeals, which had reduced Pellegrini's sentence from one year to five months for revealing and using official secrets.

Commenting on the sentence, his lawyer, Andrea Falcetta, states that the Supreme Court's decision "comes precisely in the days and hours when television news programs and newspapers are publishing the audio and video recordings of the summary information provided by two high-ranking officers of the Carabinieri during the investigation into the Garlasco case.

In contrast, Pellegrini, a highly decorated Carabiniere, was definitively convicted for having informed some colleagues of the arrest of the two men responsible for the killing of Cerciello Rega. This 'news' had already been front and center on many news sites for several hours,” he concludes.