Nigerian Man Strangled To Death On The Street Of Italy (Video)
Category: Crime News
A Nigerian has been strangled to death on the street of Italy without anyone
intervening.
The Italian police have now arrested the man who
brutally beat the Nigerian vendor, Alika Ogorchukwu to death on a busy beach
town on Friday.
Alika is said to be physically challenged.
The incident happened publicly while onlookers filmed how the
aggressive man beat and strangled the physically-challenged Ogorchukwu to death
without any apparent attempt to intervene.
According to Washington
Post, the video footage of the attack has circulated widely on Italian news
websites and social media, attracting outrage as Italy enters a parliamentary
election campaign in which the right-wing coalition has already made immigration
an issue.
“The murder of Alika Ogorchukwu is dismaying,’’ Enrico
Letta, the head of the left-wing Democratic Party, wrote Saturday on Twitter,
naming the vendor who died Friday. “Unheard of ferocity. Widespread
indifference. There can be no justification.”
Right-wing leader
Matteo Salvini, who is making security a fundamental point of his campaign, also
expressed outrage over the death, saying “security has no color and needs to
return to being a right.”
Reports revealed that Ogorchukwu, 39, was
selling goods Friday on the main street of Civitanova Marche, a beach town on
the Adriatic Sea, when his attacker grabbed his crutch and struck him down,
according to police.
The video showed the assailant wrestling the
victim onto his back on the pavement as he fought back, eventually subduing him
with the weight of his body.
“The aggressor went after the victim,
first hitting him with a crutch. He made him fall to the ground, then he
finished, causing the death, hitting him repeatedly with his bare hands,’’ the
town’s chief commissioner, Fabio Mazza, told a press conference.
Police investigator Matteo Luconi told Italian news channel Sky TG24
that onlookers called police, who responded after the suspect had fled and
attempted to administer aid to the victim.
But, police used street
cameras to track the assailant’s movements and detained a man identified as
Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32. He was being held on suspicion of murder
and theft for allegedly taking the victim’s phone.
Luconi told Sky
TG24 the assailant got angry and aggressive following Ogorchukwu’s “insistent”
requests for pocket change.
Police were questioning witnesses and
viewing videos of the attack. They said the suspect has made no statement.
Ogorchukwu, who was married with two children, resorted to selling
goods on the street after he was struck by a car and lost his job as a laborer
due to his injuries, said Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM association for
immigrants in the Marche region’s Macerata province.
Amanza gave a
different version of what happened, saying the attacker became infuriated when
Ogorchukwu told the man’s companion she was beautiful.
“This
compliment killed him,’’ Amanza told The Associated Press.
“The
tragic fact is that there were many people nearby. They filmed, saying ‘Stop,’
but no one moved to separate them,’’ Amanza said.
Watch video below to see the version of this narrator about the incidence...
So sad and some people were watching the guy struggling with his life without making any attempt to rescue him from the hands of that bastard. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
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