In a brutal attack, an Italian man killed a Nigerian street vendor on Friday, July 29, 2022, on a busy street in broad daylight in the center of Civitanova Marche, Italy.
Italian media reported that Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32, killed Alica Ogurchuko, 39, a street vendor amid the indifference of passers-by who only took video and handed it over to the police.
A video posted by an Italian website shows Ferlazzo chasing down his victim and pinning him to the ground, before pouncing on him and hitting him in the head with his cane to kill him.
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A disabled Nigerian man named #Alika Ogorchukwu
He was killed by a local man with his cane under his arm #CivitanovaMarche For trivial reasonsThe murder was filmed by onlookers and no one intervened to stop the attacker.#Black lives matter pic.twitter.com/8RDDZb1UCa
— Umut Çağrı Sarı (@umutcagrisari) July 30, 2022
According to the British newspaper Guardian, the perpetrator took Ogorchukwu’s phone before beating him and took it with him after killing him.
The newspaper explained that the assailant on Ogorchukwu began after he flirted with the man’s girlfriend and said, “Oh beautiful, will you buy me a tissue or give me a euro,” which the investigator rejected as a justification for the murder. .
But Ferlazo, who beat a Nigerian salesman to death, apologized for his crime and expressed remorse in a letter through his lawyer to the victim’s family.
After the release of this video, anger prevailed in Italy and dozens of people from the Nigerian community took part in a demonstration condemning the crime with the participation of the victim’s wife and demanding justice for him by carrying pictures of Ogorchocho.
While activists and social media twitterers condemned the incident and expressed their deep displeasure with the audience who were happy with the filming and did not take the initiative to help the victim, while others blamed the speech of right-wing politicians in Italy. . Described as racist.
Source: Lebanon Debate
