(ANSA) - Florence, September 24 - A 21-year-old Mongolian
student 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.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called for chemical
castration.
"A 21-year-old student from Mongolia has been raped in
Florence. The police have stopped a 25-year-old Romanian, of no
fixed abode, and with a criminal record," he said.
"The beasts who rape deserve exemplary punishment and, as in
other European countries, the experimentation of chemical
castration".
Woman, 21, beaten and raped in Florence street
Chemical castration needed says Salvini