Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was slightly hurt on Friday when a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, the ANSA news agency reported.
ANSA said the tripod struck Berlusconi on the neck as he was walking through Piazza Navona. He immediately returned to his nearby offices and was seen by a doctor as a precautionary measure.
Police immediately arrested the assailant, identified by ANSA as a 28-year old bricklayer from the northern Italian city of Mantova who was in Rome for the New Year holiday.
The agency gave no reason for the attack.
Berlusconi’s office was not immediately available for comment.
The prime minister regularly goes for unannounced walkabouts in central Rome and often stops for an ice cream in a Piazza Navona cafe.