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ROME — German police on Tuesday arrested a fugitive wanted in the sex slaying of a British college student in Italy, nabbing a man whose fingerprints had been found at the bloody scene of the crime that has gripped Italians.

Hours later, a Congolese pub owner was freed from jail, where he had been held after being accused of the stabbing by another suspect, the victim’s 20-year-old American roommate.

Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, a native of the Ivory Coast, was sought in the sexual assault and fatal stabbing Nov. 2 of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the house she shared with University of Washington student Amanda Marie Knox in Perugia. Knox and her Italian boyfriend remain jailed. Both have denied any wrongdoing.

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