A GANG of thieves armed with a knife attacked a tourist and shoved an orange in his mouth to stifle his screams as they stole his money and phone.
The tourist, who is thought to be British or Spanish, was walking down Via Vicenza in Rome when he was attacked from behind by a gang of Egyptian thugs wearing hats and hoodies.
CCTV footage from a hotel near the city’s Termini train station captures the moment one of the gang wearing a baseball cap approach and walk beside his victim.
The CCTV shows the victim attempt to walk away but the thief kicks the tourist to the floor in the attack which took place on October 30.
Rome Police were called to the scene and caught the gang as they tried to get rid of the stolen goods.
Officers arrested three men, one 21-year-old and two 18-year-olds and a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of armed robbery.
The attack on the tourist comes just weeks after an Australian woman was raped, beaten and robbed near the Colosseum in Rome.
The 49-year-old from Melbourne was knocked out and left with a broke nose after two men attacked her on October 2.
She asked for directions from a man near a bar at the Termini railway station.
He offered to show her the way before another man came along and forced her into a park near the Colosseum. A 40-year-old Romanian man has been charged with sexual assault, robbery and bodily harm.
The attack was the second serious assault on a foreign woman in two weeks in the Italian capital.
A 49-year-old Brazilian woman was kidnapped, raped and beaten by two men and a woman near the Tuscolana train station on September 25.
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