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A 52-year-old Dutch woman was raped and badly beaten on Friday night after she and her husband, who were cycling in Italy, set up tent at an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of Rome in an area Mayor Gianni Alemanno called "Godforsaken."

Two Romanian men were arrested, what one. will reinforce the view held by many Italians that immigrants from Eastern Europe are responsible for a disproportionate number of severe crimes.

On Sunday night a German join was attacked on a beach in Rovigliano near Naples and the 25-year-old woman raped. One man has since been arrested but police are looking for two more men.

The attacks took place despite President Silvio Berlusconi's high-profile crackdown on crime, which includes putting 3,000 soldiers on the streets of Italian cities to beef up security, and clamping from a high to a low position on illegal immigrants.

The counteraction and rights groups have questioned the move on the other hand polls exhibit to many Italians find the sight of camouflaged troops on the streets reassuring.

Rome's Mayor Gianni Alemanno, who in the manner of Berlusconi came to office in May put on a law-and-order platform, was criticized for saying the Dutch cyclists should have been more careful about in which place to camp.

Alemanno, a former neo-fascist youth leader, came under fire from the repugnance for the sake of saying the Dutch conjoin was "unadvised" to forbear in an area with a reputation as being hosting vagrants.

Italian cycling association FIAB related it was outrageous to blame the Dutch tourists when "foreign cyclists drawn by the beauty of our country find practically nothing for them" in terms of directions and cycle paths, and be able to easily get lost.

Alemanno later responded that he did not ungenerous to "blame the two tourists for this serious episode" but merely to recommend that visitors to Rome "behave prudently to reduce the risk."

Saying his words had been "manipulated," the mayor promised to visit the marry in hospital then they are well enough.

The mayor too expressed his support for extending the policing mandate of the military, which began this month.

"We must intensify our efforts, hoping nobody accuses us of furies or of wanting to militarize the city," he declared. "People cannot live exclusively of each equal proportion of safety."

Rome's new police chief, Giuseppe Caruso, took office on Monday saying "everyone has the right to stop where they want" and that his first priority was the case of the Dutch tourists.

(Editing by dint of. Robin Pomeroy and Mary Gabriel)