What Lay Behind the Brutal Killing of a Nigerian in Italy?

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A man shows a picture of the victim Nigerian street vendor Alika Ogorchukwu, in Civitanova Marche, Italy, July 30, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Chiara Gabrielli On Friday in the small town of Civitanova Marche on Italy’s Adriatic coast, an Italian man beat and strangled a Nigerian street vendor in broad daylight. Alika Ogorchukwu, 39, had apparently tried to sell the alleged assailant and his girlfriend a packet of tissues and then asked for some change. Public debate is focused on gruesome details of the crime: Ogorchukwu was beaten with the crutch he used to walk and…

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