Second suspect in Milan student rape in custody

(ANSA) - Milan, October 23 - Carabinieri paramilitary police on Thursday took into custody a man after he was extradited from his native Romania to face rape charges in Milan.
    Omer Taner, 21, is accused in the June 8 battery, rape and robbery of a 23-year-old Polish student who was in Milan on an Erasmus scholarship.
    His Romanian accomplice, 20-year-old Suliman Ohran, was arrested in Milan on June 28.
    The two culprits, both homeless with criminal records for robbery, allegedly attacked the victim while she was on her way home from a restaurant where she had dined with friends, beat her almost unconscious and dragged behind a hedge in a public garden where they allegedly raped and robbed her of her purse and her cell phone.
    The suspects were identified thanks to CC TV and DNA evidence, police said.