Charity Oriachi, the wife of a Nigerian street vendor has called for justice after the k#lling of her husband in Italy, which was filmed by onlookers and has incited national condemnation.
Alika Ogorchukwu, 39, was selling goods Friday on the main street of Civitanova Marche, a beach town on the Adriatic Sea, when his attacker grabbed the vendor’s crutch and knocked him down, according to police.
“The attacker chased the victim and first hit him with a crutch, then knocked him to the ground and then finished him off, k#lling him by repeatedly striking him with his bare hands.”
An autopsy later in the week will help determine if Ogorchukwu succumbed to the beating or was strangled as he lay with his back on the ground. 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 said the assailant lashed out after the vendor made “insistent” requests for pocket change. Police were questioning witnesses and viewing videos of the attack.
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.
Francesco Mantella, a lawyer who helps Nigerians in the country in different cases, said: “This is horrible. No one is helping to stop this murderous rage against him. This shameful indifference must be investigated. It shows that there is no longer a sense of citizenship, sensitivity, and solidarity.”
Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League Party, known for its anti-immigration theses, said: “It is madness to die in this way. I hope whoever did this will receive the highest possible punishment.”
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