Italy: Italian police have detained an Italian man in connection with the murder of a Nigerian street vendor who was brutally beaten to death in a busy beach town in front of onlookers who tried to physically intervene. No clear effort was made.
Italian news websites and social media have been flooded with video footage of the attack, sparking outrage as the country prepares for parliamentary elections, in which the right-wing coalition has already disputed immigration.
Former prime minister and left-wing Democratic Party leader Enrico Letta wrote on Twitter on Saturday: "The killing of Alika Ogorchuku is disappointing. "Unprecedented brutality. General lack of interest. No defense is possible.
Security is a key component of right-wing leader Matteo Salvini's platform, and he also expressed displeasure over the death, saying that "security has no color and ... needs to return when it is right."
According to police, 39-year-old Ogorchuku was attacked on Friday when he was selling goods on the main street of the Adriatic Sea beach town of Civitanova Marche. His attacker grabbed the vendor's crutches and hit him. The video shows the attacker forcing the victim to fall to the ground while he struggles against her before finally pinning Ogorchuku with her body weight.
The attacker chased the victim and initially hit him with crutches. Police investigator Matteo Luconi told a news conference that the attacker repeatedly hit the victim with his bare hands, causing him to fall to the ground.
Later, he told Italian news outlet Sky TG24 that witnesses called the police, who arrived after the suspect had fled and tried to help the victim. If the death was caused by beating, suffocation or any other cause, the autopsy would reveal this information.
Street cameras were used by police to follow the attacker's movements, and they were able to capture 32-year-old Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazo. He was being detained on suspicion of stealing the victim's phone and murder.
According to Luconi, the attacker hit the seller when he asked for a "strange" change. The police were watching videos of the assault and were interrogating witnesses. He claimed that the suspect had not spoken.
According to Daniel Amanza, director of the ACSIM Association for Migrants, Ogorchuku, a married father of two children, began selling goods on the street after being hit by a car and losing his job as a laborer as a result of his wounds. Macerata Province of the Marche Region.
Amanza provided a different description of what happened, claiming that the attacker became furious after Ogorchukwu called the man's partner attractive.
Amanza said, "This compliment took his life.
Sadly there were so many people around. Amanza claimed that he recorded them shouting "Wait," but no one intervened to keep them apart.
In 2018, a shooting spree in Macerata that targeted African migrants left six people injured. The shooting, which Italy's top court qualified as a hate crime, resulted in 31-year-old Luca Treni being convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
After hundreds of people demonstrated on Saturday, Civitanova Marche Mayor Fabrizio Ciarapica met with members of the Nigerian community.
"My condemnation is not only for [the crime] but also for the indifference," Ciarapaca told Skye. "The citizens are shocked by this,"
Matteo Renzi, a former prime minister who is now leading a small party, criticized politicians for "instrumentalizing" the attack.
"I am horrified by this election environment," he posted on social media. "A father was brutally and racially murdered while the audience recorded the incident on camera without interference. Politicians argue and use their positions for their own purposes, not the idea." To be what we are.
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