Italian court frees migrant accused of raping elderly woman because a legal document wasn’t translated into his native language (opens in new tab)

A 22-year-old man from Mali, accused of raping a woman in her seventies inside her home in Pistoia, has been freed after an Italian court annulled his pre-trial detention on technical grounds. Judges found that the original custody order had not been translated into French, a language the defendant understands. The assault took place on […]