A 32-year-old Somali was arrested for rape in Milan .
The investigation, conducted by the Police and coordinated by the Milanese Public Prosecutor's Office, arose from the complaint of a woman who reported that she had been the victim of sexual violence by a stranger who had intercepted her in the city center and offered her assistance and hospitality in its makeshift bed.
Both the alleged perpetrator, regularly in Italy, and the victim are homeless. The woman needed to find shelter and he, after gaining her trust, had taken her to a tent in the gardens of Piazza Carbonari .
Here, taking advantage of her frail condition, he forced her to undergo sexual acts on the night between 28 and 29 April.
The investigations were immediately launched by the specialized section against sexual offenses of the Milan Flying Squad which carried out inspections on the scene of the crime and in the vicinity, finding elements which allowed, in a short time, to identify a person fully compatible with the description provided by the victim. The policemen then carried out other investigations, also with the contribution of a witness and the same woman who recognized the alleged perpetrator in the 32-year-old Somali citizen, with no fixed abode who had previously been in Piedmont and for a few weeks in Milan.
The man is now in San Vittore prison awaiting validation.
(Unioneonline/L)
