A Nigerian asylum seeker has been beaten to death after stepping in to defend his wife from an apparently racist attack by a Right-wing football fan in a small town in northern Italy.
Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, 36, and his wife, Chinyery, fled to Italy last year after surviving a violent attack on a church in Nigeria by the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, in which members of their family were killed.
The couple was walking through the town of Fermo in the Marche region on Tuesday, when they were reportedly abused by the supporter of a local football club.
The man allegedly called Mr Namdi’s 24-year-old wife a "monkey" and when Mr Namdi responded to the slur he was beaten and left in an irreversible coma before dying on Wednesday. On Thursday a local man, Amedeo Mancini, 38, was arrested on suspicion of Mr Namdi's murder.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi condemned the murder on Thursday, tweeting that the government stands with the town in memory of Mr Namdi and is “against, hatred, racism and violence”. Angelino Alfano, the interior minister, travelled to Fermo to attend a public security committee meeting in the town.
Lately, there hasn't been a single day without reading the news that someone was beaten to death, seriously injured, shot, etc. and all of this with the racist, religious, xenophobic, homophobic motives. Like wtf is wrong with this world?
This. And most of them are so racist too, for whatever reason. It's weird because Ronaldo is so socially aware and all for social justice yet his fans are the biggest bigots around.
OT: rest in peace, I hope that pos pays for eternity for what he did.
I don't have the energy to deal with white people anymore.
Not today, or tomorrow, not this week.
What about black people makes them (or you all) so angry and hateful? Wow.
I kinda hate football fans even more...most of them are like this...homophobic,racist and sexist..they just don't have respect and just want to come of as masculine..too bad that maybe good refugees get taken out..the ones that rape and kill in the accepting countries still live unpunished like those cops in the US..
.too bad that maybe good refugees get taken out..the ones that rape and kill in the accepting countries still live unpunished like those cops in the US..
I kinda hate football fans even more...most of them are like this...homophobic,racist and sexist..they just don't have respect and just want to come of as masculine..too bad that maybe good refugees get taken out..the ones that rape and kill in the accepting countries still live unpunished like those cops in the US..
hooligans of any sport are the pits.
