Jail term upheld over brutal attack on Poles in Italy
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
19.10.2018 14:46
An Italian court of appeal on Friday upheld a 16-year jail sentence for a Congolese national convicted over the gang rape of a Polish woman and a brutal assault on a Polish man.
The attacks were carried out on a beach in the eastern Italian coastal resort of Rimini in August last year.
Ahead of Friday’s hearing at a court in Bologna, northern Italy, a defence lawyer for Congolese national Guerlin Butungu argued that his client had not taken part in the assaults.
The defence claimed Butungu had been asleep at the time after drinking.
The case made the headlines in Poland and in Italy. The Rimini authorities claimed the attacks damaged the image of the city, which is visited by millions of tourists every year.
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Source: PAP