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Lawyer: African to stay jailed in American’s slaying Lawyer: African may stay jailed in American’s slaying
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ROME — A lawyer for a Senegalese man suspected of killing American woman in Florence says an Italian judge is expected to uphold his client’s jailing. ROME — An Italian judge is expected to order a Senegalese man, arrested for the death of an American woman, to remain in jail while the investigation continues, the suspect’s lawyer said Saturday.
The judge questioned Cheik Tidiane Diaw at a closed-door hearing Saturday in Florence to determine if the suspect should stay in custody as Ashley Olsen’s murder probe continues. The judge questioned Cheik Tidiane Diaw, suspected of killing Ashley Olsen, at a closed-door hearing Saturday in Florence to determine if he should stay in jail. A decision is required by Monday.
Olsen, 35, originally from Florida, was found dead in her apartment on Jan. 9. An autopsy determined she was strangled a day earlier and suffered skull fractures. According to witnesses, Olsen and Diaw were together at a Florence night club a few hours before the attack. While prosecutors accuse him of aggravated homicide, no formal charges have been lodged.
Lawyer Antonio Voce says Diaw told the judge he tried to telephone for help. Diaw denies strangling Olsen, contending he pushed her to the floor twice after she shoved him. Olsen, 35, originally from Florida, was found dead in her apartment on Jan. 9 after her Italian boyfriend, an artist in Florence, became alarmed when he hadn’t heard from her and asked the apartment’s owner to let him inside to check.
An autopsy determined she was strangled a day earlier and also suffered skull fractures. According to witnesses, Olsen and Diaw met at a Florence nightclub a few hours before the attack.
Prosecutors said surveillance video cameras along the route showed the two walked together toward her apartment. They also told reporters the woman was slain after a night of cocaine-use and sex, which the prosecutors described as consensual.
Speaking by telephone from Florence, lawyer Antonio Voce says his client Diaw told the judge at the hearing that he used Olsen’s telephone to try to call for help. He says Diaw denies strangling Olsen, contending he pushed her to the floor twice after she shoved him in what he described as humiliating attempt to make him leave the apartment.
Voce said Diaw has also maintained that Olsen was alive when he left the house in a taxi.
Police arrested him after finding traces of his DNA on a condom and cigarette butt in the apartment. Diaw, 27, was living at his brother’s flat in Florence and had work giving out publicity flyers about the city’s nightclubs.
Olsen’s funeral was held Friday in Florence, where she was buried.
Her father taught at a design school in Florence, a city that draws foreigners for its Renaissance architecture and masterpiece-rich art museums and churches.
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