A 32-year-old Cameroonian
national has been arrested for attempted homicide after
allegedly hitting a stranger waiting at a Milan tram stop with
an iron bar for no reason late on Tuesday.
The victim, a 31-year-old Serbian man who legally resides in
Italy and does not have a criminal record, was taken to the
northern city's Policlinico hospital in a serious condition with
numerous fractures to the skull.
A young woman called the Carabinieri police after noticing
the alleged assailant acting aggressively after getting off the
tram.
The assailant hit the Serb three times, twice on the ground,
police said.
The Cameroonian has a record of violent offences, they said,
including a definitive sentence for bodily harm and resisting
arrest.
Some passers-by tried vainly to disarm him after the assault
but he fended them off and went on to vandalise a number of
motor scooters.
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