The murder of Nigerian vendor Alika Ogorchukwu in broad daylight in the center of the city of Civitanova Marche (Italy) has shocked the country this Saturday, with criticism of the “indifference” of those who attended the crime without intervening.
“The murder of Alika Ogorchukwu is shocking. Unheard of ferocity. widespread indifference. There can be no justifications and silence is not enough. The last outrage once morest Alika would be to turn the page and forget,” denounced the leader of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta.
Ogorchukwu, a 39-year-old Nigerian man with a wife and an 8-year-old son, died this Friday followingnoon allegedly at the hands of Italian Filippo Claudio Ferlazzo, 32, already in prison accused of voluntary manslaughter and robbery, because he took the victim’s phone
The Nigerian, a street vendor, was in the central Umberto I street of Civitanova Marche, a tourist port on the Adriatic coast, when he was attacked by the Italian, according to the media in reaction to a comment he made regarding his girlfriend.
This sparked off a fight in which the Italian struck several blows with the same crutch as Ogorchukwu until he was knocked to the ground. And then it was put on him until ending his life, as can be seen in the videos that passers-by made.
Shock in Italy over the murder of a Nigerian vendor in the middle of the street
The association of Sant’Egidio, which among other missions deals with the reception of refugees in Italy, lamented these events today and called to “stop the violence but also the violence that opens the way.”
«It is an episode that has occurred in a street normally full of people, in the heart of Civitanova Marche. There are even those who have recorded it, others shouted at the aggressor, but nobody intervened, “the organization denounced.
“What happened is a wake-up call for our entire country: mercy towards the weakest, on which, along with other positive values, Italian society was built and which structures our culture, along with the rest of Europe, cannot or must go,” he added.
“Unjustifiable indifference”
The acting Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, assured that “indifference is as serious and unjustifiable as violence.”
Even the far-right leader Matteo Salvini, always critical of immigrants, predicted that “the sentence will be the maximum possible” for the aggressor and denounced the violence that in his opinion is spreading throughout the country.
“The problem is that there are episodes of violence and criminality in broad daylight throughout Italy. It can’t be, but it happens because the certainty of the sentence is missing », he considered, in the middle of the electoral campaign for the general elections on September 25.
