The unidentified 40-year-old man was discovered in a room at the four-star Hotel Continentale in Florence, where accommodation starts at $463 a night, along with a 43-year-old woman “covered in blood”, who called staff for help. Both the man and the woman, believed to be his wife, were covered in cuts and bruises, according to reports. Investigators suspect that either a domestic dispute or a love game went wrong, “but that the direction is that of a love game,” a police source told the Daily Mail. “The man was found with a number of cuts, bruises and other injuries on his body, as was the woman, although she was more seriously injured and the man appears to have had some sort of seizure,” the source told the agency. The woman’s injuries were not life-threatening, the report said. The couple were staying at the Hotel Continentale in Florence. FirenzeTodayReports reported that the man and woman were both covered in bruises. FirenzeToday investigators reportedly believe the incident stems from a domestic dispute or a love game gone wrong.FirenzeToday The pair are believed to have arrived from Manchester on Friday night, according to the Sun. Italian news outlets said the woman was “covered in blood” when she called hotel workers to tell them she had seen her beau “collapse on the ground”, the Sun reported. “The woman had raised the alarm after a maid knocked on the door, but some of the guests had already called reception to report shouting and banging from the room,” a source told the British tabloid.
