After escaping from Boko Haram, a Nigerian who became an asylum seeker in Italy has been beaten to death after stepping in to defend his wife from an apparent racist attack by a Right-wing football fan in a small town in northern Italy.
Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi, 36, and his wife, Chinyere, 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 an "ultra" supporter of a local football club.
The man allegedly called Mr Nnamdi’s 24-year-old wife a "monkey" and when Mr Nnamdi responded, 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 Nnamdi's murder.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi condemned the murder on Thursday, tweeting that the government stands with the town in memory of Mr Nnamdi and is “against, hatred, racism and violence”.
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