STA, 19 November 2019 - A 38-year old man from Morocco who came out of prison at the end of September after serving a two-year prison sentence for robbery, is suspected of raping two students in Ljubljana, the newspaper Dnevnik reported on Tuesday.
He was brought before an investigating judge at the end of October, and was remanded in custody.
According to the Ljubljana police department, one crime was committed at a student dorm in the Bežigrad borough and the other about ten days later in the city centre.
The man was arrested based on a suspect description immediately after the second rape in the second half of October, the police told the paper. Both victims, a 22-year-old and a 23-year-old, positively identified the man, Dnevnik reported.
The 38-year-old already had a criminal record, having served two years for a robbery committed in June 2016 and receiving suspended sentences for theft. He had also been sentenced to three months for another case of theft.
According to Dnevnik's unofficial information, the man requested international protection in Slovenia a few years ago but his motion was denied.
After he was convicted he could have been ordered to leave the country, but was obviously not and also spent some time in one of northern European countries, according to the paper.
