(ANSA) - Florence, August 18 - Police are investigating an
incident that happened Thursday near Florence's Duomo in which a
Nigerian man complained of being attacked during a fight with
pepper spray.
The police found the alleged attacker, a 50-year-old
Florentine man who said that the African man was bothering
female tourists with persistent questions, possibly asking for
money.
The Florentine said that he had asked the Nigerian to stop
and was verbally attacked in response, and thus used the pepper
spray to protect himself.
The pepper spray is not among those available legally in
Italy.
Police have reported the man for aggravated bodily harm and
for carrying objects to be used as weapons, since he was
carrying a small knife as well as the pepper spray.
Nigerian sprayed with pepper-spray had been bothering women
Florentine attacker was carrying a small knife as well