Italy arrests African migrant for murder of American Ashley Olsen in Florence
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police have arrested a Senegalese illegal immigrant who prosecutors believe killed Ashley Olsen, a U.S. woman who was found dead in her apartment in Florence last weekend.
"We have collected very serious evidence of his guilt," Florence chief prosecutor Giuseppe Creazzo told reporters at a news conference on Thursday after the man was arrested and questioned in the early hours of the morning.
Creazzo said the man, named as Diaw Cheik Tidianee, had met the 35-year-old Olsen in a local nightclub and that the two had consensual sex in her home under the influence of alcohol, and possibly drugs, before he killed her.
She was strangled in the early hours of Friday, Creazzo said, but the autopsy revealed that she had two fractures to her skull -- injuries that would also have proved fatal.
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Police say they have surveillance video of Tidianee and Olsen leaving the nightclub together the night Olsen died. Witnesses also saw the pair leave together. In the home, police found Tidianee's DNA in a condom as well as under Olsen's fingernails.
Some fear the case will add fuel to anti-migrant sentiment as the European continent faces an intense debate over immigration.