The Florence police said the club’s cameras showed the women leaving with two officers. The women told prosecutors that they were intoxicated and had smoked marijuana that evening, according to Italian news media reports, and that the officers accompanied them to their apartment in a service vehicle. The women live in Borgo Santi Apostoli, in the historic center of the city.
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Prosecutors in Florence are investigating the accusations and have taken statements from the two women, who, according to Italian news media reports, are from New Jersey and Maine, and are studying at Lorenzo de’ Medici – The Italian International Institute. The Italian authorities have collected potential evidence, including the women’s clothes, and the women underwent medical examinations and DNA tests at a Florence hospital.
Florence is Italy’s center for study-abroad programs and is a popular destination for American students. Many leading American universities operate programs in the city and house students in villas there.
The explosive allegations have dominated news coverage throughout Italy, with articles about them at the top of the country’s newspapers and news websites. On Saturday, the website of Italy’s largest newspaper, Corriere della Sera, featured a video with illustrations depicting the night’s events set to haunting piano music.
“If this is true, and I hope that light is shed on the matter as soon as possible, then it would be an act of unheard-of gravity,” Gen. Tullio Del Sette, the commander of the Carabinieri, told the ANSA news agency.
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