Police in Italy arrested a man over the ferocious killing of a Nigerian vendor whose brutal beating and death on a busy street was filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically.
Alika Ogorchukwu And The Assailant
Italian news websites and social media, eliciting 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, a former premier and 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.”
In a new development, the Italian police say it has detained 32-year-old Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, who was tracked down using street cameras after the vicious attack. The police say he is being held on suspicion of murder and theft, the latter for allegedly taking the victim’s phone when he fled.
A judge in Macerata on Monday, August 1, 2022, ordered that Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, the man who beat a Nigerian migrant to death in Italy, must remain in jail.
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 struck him down, according to police. Video shows the assailant wrestling the victim onto his back on the pavement as he fought back, eventually subduing Ogorchukwu 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, striking repeatedly with his bare hands,'' police investigator Matteo Luconi told a press conference.
Mr Ogorchukwu, who was married with two children, resorted to selling goods on the street after he was hit by a car and lost his job as a laborer due to the injuries he suffered. The accident left him with a limp, and needing crutches, said Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM, an association for immigrants in the Marche region’s Macerata province.
The wife of the deceased Nigerian man, Charity Oriachi, is calling for justice to be served.
"I need justice for my husband, that is what I want. Because it is too much, the pain is too much for me."
Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM, an association for immigrants in the Marche region’s Macerata province, claimed the aggressor became infuriated when Ogorchukwu told the man’s companion she was beautiful.
It's really sad. There's no empathy anywhere.
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