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Pope Francis meets slain US college student's parents

06 luglio 2016 | 14.39
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Pope Francis meets slain US college student's parents

Pope Francis on Wednesday held a private audience at the Vatican with parents of US college student Beau Solomon, after his corpse was found in Rome's Tiber river with a gaping head wound.

At the unscheduled meeting, Francis expressed his “feelings of deep sympathy and compassion” and “his closeness in prayer to the Lord for the young man who died so tragically,” a Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, said in a statement.

Nineteen-year-old Solomon's body was found on Monday after he went missing in the early hours of Friday after an evening spent with friends in a pub in Rome's central Trastevere district beside the Tiber.

Preliminary autopsy results indicated that he drowned and had suffered injuries consistent with a fall and with days spent in the water. The results of toxicology tests indicating any substances Soloman had in his system are expected in the next few days.

A 40-year-old homeless man, Massimo Galioto has been arrested for Solomon's murder. Security camera footage showed Solomon getting into a fight on the river bank with Galioto, who pushed him into the Tiber, according to media reports and Galioto's girlfriend.

Police believe Solomon was mugged when he left the bar in the early hours of Friday morning, by two people who stole his wallet and mobile phone.

The keen American footballer gave chase to two north African men who ran down an embankment towards the river near the Garibaldi bridge, where he got into a scuffle with Galioto, who lived in a tent under the bridge.

Solomon, from Spring Green, Wisconsin, had arrived in Rome on Thursday to begin a five-week exchange programme at the English-language John Cabot University, which is in Trastevere.

One of four brothers, he had survived an aggressive form of cancer as a child and was majoring in finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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