(ANSA) - Florence, June 30 - An Italian man has been
arrested for the murder of a Brazilian transsexual prostitute
and a Dominican woman friend of hers in central Florence
Wednesday.
Mirco Alessi, 42, confessed to murdering Gilberto Manoel Da
Silva, 45, after the prostitute allegedly threatened to reveal
they had a relationship, as well as Mariela Josefina Santos
Cruz, 27, from the Dominican Republic.
The double murder took place in Da Silva's flat near the
Santa Maria Novella square.
Man held for killing transsexual and woman in Florence
Near Santa Maria Novella