Andrea Varriale claims his colleague Mario Cerciello Rega was slain in an unprovoked nighttime attack on July 26 after the officers, who were in plain clothes, approached the Americans, who had earlier tried to buy drugs.
The San Francisco native, who was 19 at the time of the incident, says Cerciello attacked him from behind, while Varriale wrestled with Natale-Hjorth, then 18."He was an exemplary man, the best," Cerciello's brother Paolo told ANSA news agency in a rare interview last week. The defence says lies told by Varriale in the immediate aftermath of the stabbing -- such as whether or not the policemen were armed, as they should have been while on duty -- seriously undermine his credibility as a witness.
He would stick by his story that he had been carrying his gun until August 9, when he confessed that not only did he not have his gun on him, but that he had conspired with a superior officer to lie about it.
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