A few days after a Nigerian, Fola Orubiyi was stabbed to death in London, another Nigerian, 36 year old law lecturer, Emmanuel Chidi has been beaten to death in Italy as his girlfriend watched.
Chidi was hacked to death in a racist attack by a right-wing football fan in a central Italian town.
Italian officials confirmed on Wednesday that Chidi was walking with his girlfriend, Cinieri, in the heart of the small town of Paolo Calcinora on Tuesday, when they had racial abuse heaped on them by the supporter of a local football club.
The matter was said to have led to an altercation and Chidi was brutally beaten on the head until he fell to the ground. He never recovered consciousness and died in hospital on Wednesday.
“As mayor of a town that is welcoming and open to integration, I feel I’m living in a nightmare,” the town’s mayor said.
Chidi had been living in the area for eight months and was lodged in a shelter run by Catholic charity Caritas.
His girlfriend had lost her baby after a perilous Mediterranean crossing.
The head of the community don Vinicio Albanesi called the incident in Fermo “cold-blooded provocation” and recalled in this connection that not so long ago before the churches of the city were laid explosive devices.
Hundreds of migrants arrive daily in Italy. The Italian interior ministry said last week that a total of 70,930 people landed between January and June — almost exactly the same number as the same period in 2015 and only slightly higher than in 2014.
Source: Agi news agency. [myad]
