A 21-year-old Asian woman
was beaten and raped in a street on the southern outskirts of
Florence on Sunday night, police sources said Monday.
A man came up the woman, who is in the Tuscan capital for
study purposes, punched her to the ground and pulled her by the
hair for a few metres behind a tree before raping her, the
sources said.
The incident took place in via di Varlungo, near the
Marco Polo viaduct, police said.
A 25-year-old homeless man of Romanian origin, Arnaut
Mustafa, was arrested in connection with the incident later
Monday.
The man, who has a criminal record, left a pouch with his
documents at the place of the alleged rape.
Police found him in a nearby abandoned building.
Police said Mustafa's attack was interrupted when a passerby
came by, and he fled leaving his pouch with his documents and
cellphone.
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